FEcor
Main text
CLI - Copy by Linowski
Ap - Presentation autograph
FE - French edition
FEcor - Chopin's FE proof
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - Second impression of [EE1]
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 4

not tied in CLI & FE (→EE2EE3)

tied in Ap, GE & EE4

The authenticity of the note's hold is undoubtedly certified only in Ap and only in this bar, as in analogous bars 12 and 39 there are no ties. The authenticity of the version with the repeated note on the 3rd beat of the bar is much better certified:

  • in CLI the hold was not marked in any of three places (bars 4, 12 and 39);
  • the ties are also absent in the base text for FE, which is proved by their lack in FEcor, Chopin did not add them despite several stages of corrections of the edition's production. At the same time, we cannot talk about a possible oversight of this detail, as in one of the later proofreadings the composer added phrase marks combining f-e in the lower voice in all three places.

Hence the ties included in GE are most probably a revision. The first (and also subsequent) editors of Chopin's works would often, at their own discretion, add the allegedly missing ties in the places where only a part of the two-note chords' or chords' components were really sustained. 

To the main text we adopt the undoubtedly authentic version of FE (→EE2EE3).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, GE revisions

notation: Rhythm

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