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Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major

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Issues : EE revisions

b. 53

composition: Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major

b3 in CLI & EE

a3 in FE (→GE)
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The b3 note on the last semiquaver in CLI is probably the original version of this place. The same note in EE may be a result of the editorial edition. However, in both cases errors cannot be entirely excluded. Cf. bar 5.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in EE , Main-line changes , Errors of CLI

b. 54-58

composition: Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major

No fingering in CLI & FE (→GE)

Fingering in EE
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In bars 51-58 in FE (→GE) there is no fingering. Chopin probably thought the indications he gave in analogous bars 3-8 and 1-2 to be sufficient. Adding the indications in bars 54-58 in EE, Fontana stuck to the fingering resulting from Chopin's indications.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 54-66

composition: Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major

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In the sources there is a number of discrepancies in the notation of accidentals. They result from unnamed and changing over the time rules concerning the accidentals' validity and they do not influence the interpretation of the text. The layout of the accidentals adopted in the main text is present in GE4 (→GE5).

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions

b. 59-66

composition: Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major

No fingering in CLI

Fingering in FE (→GE)

Additional fingering in EE
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The fingering in bars 59, 61 and 65-66 taken from FE (→GE,EE) and adopted in the main text, is undoubtedly authentic. Fontana, following the previous indications by Chopin, completed it in EE in bar 60.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 60

composition: Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major

No pedalling in CLI

 in FE

Two pedals in GE & EE4

One pedal in EE2 (→EE3)
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In this context lack of  in FE must be considered as the notation's inaccuracy, therefore, in the main text we propose to complete it. At the same time, we claim the solution proposed in GE and EE4 (two pedals changed in the middle of the bar) to be correct. In EE2 (→EE3) the pedal release mark was simply added at the end of the bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions