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WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

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b. 1

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No dedication in JC & EF

Dedication in PE

Our suggestion
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Neither the person nor the surname of the dedication's addressee in PE are known to Chopinologists. It cannot be excluded that the dedication is an addition of the publisher – we know a couple of examples of arbitrarily added dedications by publishers even in the pieces issued during Chopin's life (by Wessel in London). 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Dedications

b. 1

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No indications in JC & PE

in EF
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The tempo indications in EF, both verbal and metronome ones, are most probably Fontana's additions. It does not mean that they are not corresponding to Chopin's intentions.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Metronome tempos

b. 1

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No marking in JC

 in EF

 in PE

Our suggestion
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The dynamic marking in PE looks like . However, it seems very likely that in [A] there was  in this place, which is indicated by:
— the shape of the sign, differing from other  featured in PE; its lower part matches the shape of ;
— different performance markings of the introduction, particularly the accents in bars 1-3 and marcato in bar 4;
— the introduction's character, texture, register, and key;
— the sign's position on the stem of the 1st chord in the R.H., which could have impeded its correct reading.
In EF a dynamic marking –  – appears only before the 2nd beat of the bar.
 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

b. 1-3

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

No markings in JC

risoluto and accents in EF

Accents in PE
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The indication risoluto, included only in EF, is most probably an addition of the editor. It does not exclude the accordance of that indication with the character of the introduction intended by Chopin (cf. characteristics of EF, as well as the remark concerning the tempo marking), which is revealed by, e.g., the accents, which in EF, despite different placement and shape, are undoubtedly compatible with the markings of PE, which most probably originate from [A]. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 1

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

in JC & PE

in FEF

in GEF
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The number in the title of the piece in EF refers to the position of the Polonaise in the collection of three polonaises created by Fontana, published as one book as a part of the edited by him posthumous Chopin's works (in FEF the book was marked as Op. 71). In the main text we do not consider this non-authentic numbering. 

category imprint: Differences between sources