Shorthand & other
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b. 1
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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. 43-50
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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In A the L.H. part is written in shorthand – only top octave notes and the segue con 8 - - - indication. In the editions it was written in full. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: GE revisions , Abbreviated octaves' notation |
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b. 74
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in FE , GE revisions , Abbreviated octaves' notation |
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b. 80
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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In the 1st half of the bar, in the main text we reproduce the A beaming, according to which the quavers are grouped in pairs (it was disregarded by the editions). It probably indicates that one should continue the articulation marked in the preceding bar by slurs, hence we suggest adding analogous slurs. category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: Inaccuracies in GE |
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b. 113-122
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composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt I
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In the main text we keep the A beaming, that is quavers grouped in pairs. In GE (→FE,EE,IE) the two-quaver beams were replaced by standard four-quaver beams. A similar change was performed by the Viennese publisher of the Variations in B category imprint: Differences between sources issues: GE revisions |
, 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: 
