mUltimate Chopin

Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

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Issues : Enharmonic corrections

b. 20

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

d-a-c1 in CLI (interpretation)

c-a-b in Ap

d-a-b in FE (→GE,EE) 
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In the sources there are three enharmonically different forms of this chord. Two of them are inaccurately written: in CLI there are no flats lowering d to d and a to a and in FE there is no  lowering d to d (which was corrected both in GE and EE). In the main text we give the notation adopted by Chopin in the version for publication. Cf. bar 22.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Chopin's hesitations , Omission of current key accidentals , Accompaniment changes , Enharmonic corrections

b. 22

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

e in CLI & FE (→GE,EE) 

d in Ap
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In Ap Chopin marked the enharmonic change of the bass note in the last chord, however, eventually he returned to the original concept in FE (→GE,EE). Cf. bar 20.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Enharmonic corrections

b. 25-26

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

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In the 1st half of bar 25 CLI includes the clearly earlier notation with the use of sharps instead of flats (d3 and a2 instead of e3 and b2). The notation was not repeated by Chopin in any of the remaining sources. Moreover, in three situations CLI does not refer to the sharp put before the previous note – naturals before the 9th semiquaver in both bars and the 13th semiquaver in bar 25 are missing. Only the last situation may be considered as an obvious error, as in the first two cases the inaccuracy is not striking due to the octave sign, which ends in the middle of the bar, as a result of which, the devoid of the sign note is one octave higher than the previous one (the same inaccuracy occurs in Ap in bar 26).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Enharmonic corrections , Errors of CLI

b. 26

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

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The third note is written in Ap as d3 and not c3. In the version for printing Chopin conserved the original notation.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Enharmonic corrections

b. 27

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

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The sources prove Chopin's hesitation concerning the notation of the 3rd semiquaver on the 2nd and 3rd beats of the bar. It is best seen in Ap, in which the clear traces of corrections are visible in the 2nd group of the notes, and possible ones – in the 3rd one. In the case of the first of the corrections, a2, most probably, was changed to g2, however, in the photograph available to the editors of mUltimate Chopin, one cannot certainly determine the direction of the changes. The result of the possible second correction is obvious – g2.
In the remaining sources the difference concerns only the 7th note, which in CLI is written as g2 and in FE (→GE,EE) – as a2. The hesitation was probably a result of the natural returning a2 in the 3rd group of semiquavers (added in one of the later proofings).  

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors in FE , Enharmonic corrections , Authentic corrections of FE