mUltimate Chopin

Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

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Issues : Authentic corrections of FE

b. 41

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Triad & fifth in CLI

Triads in Ap & FEcor

Triads in FE (→EE2→EE3)

Triads in GE1

Triads in GE2 (→GE3→GE4→GE5) & EE4
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The fifth on the 3rd beat of the bar in CLI is probably the original version. The sources also reflect Chopin's hesitation concerning the position of the cautionary  before c1. In the main text we adopt – following FE (→EE2→EE3) – the accidental before the chord on the 3rd beat of the bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Accompaniment changes , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 42-48

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

No fingering in Ap

Fingering in FE (→GE,EE) 
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In the main text we give the fingering written by Chopin in FEcor. See also bar 45.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

b. 42

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Second in CLI & Ap

d3 in FE (→GE,EE) 
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The second in CLI and Ap is the original version, compatible with the general texture scheme of the Etude, in which the chromatic passages in the upper voice are accompanied with two-note chords. In the main text we give the version introduced in FEcor (→FE→GE,EE). Chopin had already introduced a similar change in analogous bar 15, both in Ap and in the base text for FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 42-43

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

in Ap

in FE (→GE,EE) 

Our suggestion
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In the version prepared for printing Chopin did not use the dynamic hairpins he wrote in Ap (also in the next bar). In one of the last proofreadings of FE (→GE,EE) he, however, added a verbal indication. In the main text we suggest to extend the marked range of the indication, as there is no doubt that crescendo leads to  in bar 43.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 43

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Crotchets in CLI & Ap

Quavers & rests in FE (→GE,EE) 
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Same as in analogous bar 16, in FEcor Chopin changed the crotchets in the L.H. to quavers separated with rests. The crotchets, being undoubtedly the original version, also appear in CLI (with erroneously written semiquaver flags next to the 2nd crotchet) and Ap.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Accompaniment changes , Authentic corrections of FE , Errors of CLI