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(Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

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b. 379

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

Indication below lower staff in A

Indication above upper staff in GE (→FE,EE,IE)
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In the main text we keep the position of the sempre ben marcato indication under the L.H. part, as it is in A, although it is difficult to assume that it concerns L.H. only. On the other hand, if Chopin had wanted to put it over the R.H. part, as it was reproduced in GE (→FE,EE,IE), he could have easily done it, which means that he carefully thought out the position of the indication.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 379-381

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

No fingering in A (→GE→FE,IE)

Fingering in EE
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In the main text, we do not include the inauthentic fingering added by EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 383-384

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

Long accents in A (→GE→EE,IE)

2 short, 1 long accents in FE
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The typical position (after a note) of the three marks resembling accents visible in A allows us to consider them long accents, although the marks themselves are closer to short accents. This is how they were reproduced in GE (→EE,IE). It is difficult to say why the first two accents were changed to short ones in FE.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in FE

b. 383

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

Tie to c2 in A & EE

Slur f2-e2 in GE (→FE,IE)
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In the main text we provide the A tie, clearly at the pitch of c2. The fact that in GE (→FE,IE) it was assigned to the middle notes of the chords (f2-e2), hence turning it into a slur, was an arbitrary decision by the engraver of GE. Moving the slur to the pitch of c2 in EE, hence restoring it to its initial form, a tie, was also arbitrary – the publisher did not have access to A, yet he interfered with the notation of the slurs/ties between the pairs of the L.H. chords in this place by adding slurs/ties in the next bar, in which Chopin did not write them.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions

b. 383-384

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

No fingering in A (→GE→FE,IE)

Fingering in EE
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In the main text, we do not include the inauthentic fingering added by EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions