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Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

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b. 62-63

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

No markings in FC (→GE)

   in FE (→EE)
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The pedalling may have been added by Chopin while proofreading FE (→FE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

b. 63

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

2 short accents in FC & FE (→EE)

1 short accent in GE1

Long & short accent in GE2

2 long accents suggested by the editors
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We justify the long accents suggested in the main text by inaccuracies in the reproduction of such accents in other pieces by Chopin both by Fontana (cf., e.g. the Scherzo in B minor, Op. 31, bars 42-43) and by FE.
The absence of an accent in bar 63 must be a mistake by GE1, corrected in GE2 by adding a long accent.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 63-64

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

No slur in b. 64 in FC (→GE)

Slur over b. 64 in FE (→EE)
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The shorter slur of FC (→GE) resulted from inattention – most probably of the copyist, or perhaps of Chopin in [A] – who did not write the ending of the slur in a new line.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

b. 64-68

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

Separate slurs in b. 65-66 & 67-68 in FC (→GE)

Continuous slur to b. 68 in FE (→EE)
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The continuous slur of FE could be authentic; however, inaccuracies or mistakes in the interpretation of the handwritten basis for FE cannot be ruled out. In the main text we give the slurs of the principal source, FC, in accordance with the phrasing of both these sources in analogous bars 81-84.

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 65

composition: Op. 30 No. 4, Mazurka in C# minor

Tied g1 in FC, $FE (→EE) & GE2

f1 in GE1
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The version of GE1 must be a mistake, corrected in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions