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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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b. 1
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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In the main text we provide only the beginning of the extensive authentic dedication: "à Mr Joseph Elsner We omit the additional information about the addressee's position, function and honorary title, which is compliant with Chopin's practices used in other pieces, in which he mentioned only the addressee's title and surname, sometimes preceded by the name. It is unclear why the editions omitted the dedication – perhaps it was assumed that after Chopin's death and after 20 years from the date of creation of the Sonata the dedication was no longer relevant. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: Dedications |
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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While writing A, Chopin wrote Op. 3 on the title leaf, as this number was the next available one after the only piece published with an opus number – the Variations in B
category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: GE revisions |
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b. 2-7
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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In EE the Sonata was edited by Brinley Richards; among others, he developed the fingering. We do not include his fingering version in the main text, as it is obviously inauthentic, while in the EE transcriptions we reproduce it using a smaller font in italics, reserved for fingering digits added by editors. In some places, e.g. in bar 131, 184, 224, the fingering was complemented or changed in EE2. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE revisions |
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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In the main text we provide the undoubtedly continuous A slur (although combined out of two fragments). In GE the slur in bar 5, which opens a new line (as in our transcriptions), was reproduced correctly, which means that it should be continued, but the slur's fragment in bar 4 reaches only the last quaver, e category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , Corrections in A , FE revisions , Uncertain slur continuation |
to c1 and omit the unnecessarily repeated 
, Op. 2 (Chopin apparently reserved Op. 1 for another composition, most probably the Rondo in C minor). As the Sonata was not eventually published during Chopin's lifetime, the piece's first publisher, Haslinger, provided it with the number 4, which Chopin ended up not using. In mUltimate Chopin, as in the National Edition, we keep this commonly used number, yet we put it in brackets to emphasise the Sonata's separate status among the other compositions with opus numbers: 
