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Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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Issues : Last key signature sign

b. 27

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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In the main text we omit the Chopinesque  to g2, present in all sources, totally unjustified in this place. The same in bar 35.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign

b. 35

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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As in bar 27, in the main text we omit the  – cautionary? – to g2, present in all sources. 

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign

b. 39

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

g2 in FC (→GE1) & FE (→EE)

g2 in GE2

Our variant suggestion
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There are two main arguments supporting the hypothesis that Chopin could have committed a mistake by leaving the 1st note in the bar without a  resulting in 

g2:

  • analogy with the three previous phrases, in which the 1st R.H. note always (both in C and B) constitutes the interval of a major ninth with the bass;
  • Chopin's hesitation, quite frequent, as to the presence of the last accidental in the key signature, in this case the  to g. The fact that Chopin was uncertain whether it was g or g that required an accidental is proven by a  to g2, put twice, in bars 27 and 35. Therefore, if Chopin provided the g2 note with a flat, which was actually totally unnecessary, it is logical to assume that a respective note without a  is to be interpreted as g2.

Due to the above, in the main text we suggest a variant solution with affinity to g2.
A natural was added in GE2, probably on the basis of a comparison with bar 31.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Last key signature sign

b. 86

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

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In the main text we omit the Chopinesque but unjustified cautionary  to g1. It was only EE that omitted this accidental.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign