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Issues : FE revisions

b. 237

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In GE1 (→FE1,GE2), the  raising b1 to b1 is before the 1st third. Interestingly enough, it is not a common mistake but a wrong revision, since the traces of corrections in print (visible particularly in GE2) reveal that initially the text was printed correctly, with a  before the 3rd semiquaver. In FE2, EE, FESB and GE3, the  was moved to the right place, while in EE another natural was added, a cautionary one to g1 in the 1st third. We include this cautionary accidental also in the main text, hence our text is identical to version of EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE , FE revisions , Errors repeated in FE

b. 241

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

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FE1 features an F1 as the bottom most note of the chord. The patent in this context mistake was corrected in FE2 (→EE,FE3→FE4). In GE1 the chord was also printed with a mistake, entirely omitting the correct bass note (the bottom most note is an F). The remaining sources include the correct version. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in GE , GE revisions , FE revisions

b. 243-244

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

No  in GC & GE2

 in bar 244 in FE (→EE)

No pedalling in GE1

Our alternative suggestion
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In the main text, we give a  sign on the basis of FE (→EE), as these are the only sources, in which the asterisk is present at all (in GE1 the  sign was also overlooked). Our alternative suggestion is an asterisk [] in a place in which it was added – probably by Chopin in the base text to EE – at the first appearance of this place (bars 55-56).  

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions , FE revisions

b. 243

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

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FE1 has an erroneous c2 instead of an e2 as the 5th semiquaver. The mistake was corrected in FE2 (→EE).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Terzverschreibung error , FE revisions

b. 243

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

b with  in A (→FE→EE,GE)

b in GE1a

b without  suggested by the editors
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The version of GE1a is most probably a mistake by the engraver, although one cannot completely exclude a revision – the cautionary  to b, present in the remaining sources, is not indispensable here and could have been considered erroneous. The engraver or reviser of GE1a was similarly overly zealous in, e.g. b. 232.
In A there is no  raising e1 to e1 in this chord. It is almost certainly a mistake – cf. e1 in b. 240-241 – corrected by FE (→GE,EE). In the main text we omit the cautionary  to b, more justified in the original layout, in which the first 5 quavers in the previous bar – to b – are written down on the bottom stave.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors in GE , Cautionary accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE , FE revisions