Issues : Errors in PE
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b. 9
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composition: WN 29, Waltz in E minor
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The missing staccato dots in PE must be an oversight, probably by the engraver – the marks are in all 5 repetitions of this bar. The dots were added in GE, which we include in the main text. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: GE revisions , Errors in PE |
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b. 12
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composition: WN 29, Waltz in E minor
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It cannot be ruled out that the source version with a rest on the 3rd beat of the bar is authentic – small differences between the first appearance of a certain detail and its repetitions – cf. bar 20, 44, 52 and 116 – are not uncommon in Chopin's style, cf., e.g. the Scherzo in B category imprint: Editorial revisions issues: Errors in PE |
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b. 36
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composition: WN 29, Waltz in E minor
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The authenticity of the fingering digit over the 1st quaver is questionable when we compare it with the undoubtedly Chopinesque fingering of the passages of a similar structure, containing a similar combination of white and black keys – cf. the Etude in A minor, Op. 25 No. 11, bar 82 or the Concerto in F minor, Op. 21, III mov., bar 97 and 101-102, not to mention the Etude in A minor, Op. 10 No. 2, the main technical goal of which is developing efficiency of fingers in such combinations. In the main text we omit this digit, which does not exclude the use of the 4th finger, but at the same time it leaves the door open for another possibility, which many pianists – including, apparently, probably Chopin – would consider more convenient. category imprint: Editorial revisions issues: Errors in PE |
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b. 36
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composition: WN 29, Waltz in E minor
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The missing staccato dot under the bass note in the first impressions of PE must be an oversight (in this and the next bar). Relevant marks are present in analogous figures both before (bars 33-35) and after (bar 38). In the main text we add a dot in both places, as it was performed in GE and PE4. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: GE revisions , Errors in PE , |
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b. 37
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composition: WN 29, Waltz in E minor
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As in the previous bar, the missing staccato dot in the first impressions of PE must be an oversight. In the main text we add it, as it was performed in GE and PE4. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: GE revisions , Errors in PE , |
minor, Op. 31, bar 273, 284, 375 and 396 – it is only in the first one that the chord includes a d seventh; the remaining ones contain e. However, the individual presentations of this phrase of the Scherzo differ also in other details, whereas in the Waltz it is practically the only difference between the five occurrences of this eight-bar section. Due to the above, we believe that it was rather a mistake in the interpretation of [A]. 
