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

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b. 4-6

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

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It is unclear how to understand the combination of the ties between the d1 notes in bars 4-5 and the c1 notes in bars 5-6 and the arpeggio marks preceding the chords at the beginning of bar 5 and 6, since the markings seem contradictory. There are two possibilities:

  • one can consider the ties to be slurs and play the entire chords as arpeggios, repeating the aforementioned notes;
  • one can reduce the range of the arpeggios to the two bottom notes of the discussed chords, holding the topmost note.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Tie or slur

b. 4

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

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EE mistakenly has g3 as the last quaver.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE

b. 5

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

No marking in A (→GE→FE,EE,IE)

Arpeggio sign suggested by the editors
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The missing arpeggio before the chord in the middle of the bar is almost certainly Chopin's oversight – wavy lines are present in both analogous bar 188 and 371.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Errors of A

b. 5

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

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In A the  restoring B in the chord in the middle of the bar is missing. In A these accidentals are also absent the next two times this phrase appears, that is in bar 188 and 371. Nevertheless, the harmonic context indicates that it is a patent mistake by Chopin, which he committed earlier, perhaps when writing this movement as a draft, in which the subsequent appearances of this bar could have been marked in shorthand as repetitions of the first appearance. The flat was added in GE (→FE,EE,IE).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , GE revisions , Errors of A

b. 5

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

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In A the  to the last quaver (e3) is missing. The patent inaccuracy was corrected in GE (→FE,EE,IE).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A