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Issues : Annotations in FEFr

b. 1

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

The version of A (→GE→FE→EE)

The version of FEFr corrected by the editors
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Franchomme described the variant of the Nocturne opening recorded in FEFr as „the change made by the author”. We correct the obviously erroneous a flat on the last semiquaver of each group to f.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in FEFr , Authentic post-publication changes and variants

b. 15

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

 before the last but one semiquaver in A (→GE)

Three other naturals in FE

 removed before f2 in EE1

Corrected versions of FEFr and EE3
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The edited text is the indisputable version of A (→GE); also EE3 and FEFr have the correct text. The version of FE (→EE1) is most probably erroneous – cf. analogous bar 55.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FEFr

b. 21

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

A (→GE→FE→EE)

A variant given in FEFr
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The variant written by Franchomme into FEFr displays all the elements of Chopin's style. It is not unlikely that a zigzag visible in FED between the grace note b double flat1 and the following f flat2 means a similar ornamental phrase.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in FEFr , Authentic post-publication changes and variants

b. 22

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

No dynamic mark in A (→GE→FE→EE)

A dynamic marking entered in FEFr

The editors' variant proposal
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The authenticity of the dynamic marking given by Franchomme does not give rise to any major doubt, and we take it into consideration as one of the possible interpretations of that fragment. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in FEFr

b. 25

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

The initial concept of the dynamics in A (→GE→FE→EE)

Deleted hairpins in FEJ and FES

 written into FEFr

The editors' variant proposal
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The return of the first theme of the Nocturne in bar 26 was initially  – in A (→GE→FE→EE) – preceded with a . mark. Chopin deleted it in FEJ and FES, and in FEFr Franchomme removed   and written in  .

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEFr , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Annotations in FEJ