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

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Issues : Errors in FE

b. 9-10

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

d tied in FC (→GE)

d repeated in FE (→EE)
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The missing tie to the d minim is probably an oversight by the engraver of FE (→EE). Cf. a different kind of mistake in bars 17-20.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 17-20

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

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In FE there is a slur combining the rest on the 3rd beat of bar 19 with the f minim in bar 20. This absurd mark was probably supposed to be in bars 17-18 as a tie to f, which is present in FC (→GE). In EE there is no L.H. slur/tie in bars 17-20. When this phrase is repeated in bars 113-116, the text of FE (→EE) is correct. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 20

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

Arpeggio sign on 3rd beat in FC (→GE)

No sign in FE (→EE)
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It is difficult to say whether Chopin wanted the last chord in this bar to be performed arpeggio or not. Both in this bar and in analogous bar 116 only one of the authentic sources contains an arpeggio mark; however, it is a different source in each of these places – in this case it is present in FC, whereas in the other – in FE. In either case, it is both the absence of the mark (oversight) and its presence (mistake 'out of momentum') that could be a mistake. In the main text we suggest a version without an arpeggio, since in a few other places in the Mazurka it seems that in Chopin's eyes the presence of an arpeggio depended on the chord span (cf., e.g. bars 21-28, arpeggios only to the tenth chords, or bars 70-72, arpeggio only to the less convenient tenth chord on white keys).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors of FC

b. 23-25

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

Arpeggio sign in b. 23 in FC (→GE1)

Arpeggio sign in b. 25 in FE (→EE)

2 arpeggio signs in GE2
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The missing arpeggio marks in bars 23 and 25 must have resulted from oversights by the engraver of FE and the copyist, respectively. In the main text we give marks in both bars, which almost certainly corresponds to the notation of [A]. A similar addition was introduced in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors of FC

b. 36-52

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

Slurs in b. 36, 38 & 52 in FC (→GE)

Slur in b. 52 in FE

No slurs in EE
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The absence of the slurs combining the semiquaver with the chord in bars 36 and 38 in FE (→EE) is most probably an oversight by the engraver of FE (in EE the slur in bar 52 was overlooked too).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE