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Op. 10 No 1, Etude in C major

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Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 1-2

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

No annotations in CLI & FE (→GE,EE) 

Slur in FES
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The line, added with panache in FES, may be interpreted as a slur underlining the legato articulation or phrasing.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 35-37

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

No annotations in CLI & FE (→GE,EE) 

Slurs in FED (interpretation)
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In FED the added not entirely clear signs may be interpreted as slurs, e.g., reminding of the legato articulation or underlining the dynamic change and beginning of the new phrase in bar 37.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 44

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

e3 in CLI, GE3 (→GE4→GE5) & EE as well as FED, FEJ & FES

d3 in FE (→GE1→GE2)
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FE (→GE1→GE2) has d3 as the last semiquaver. The mistake is revealed by corrections in all three pupils' copies. The note was changed to e3 also in EE and subsequent GE,s.  

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , GE revisions , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEJ

b. 77-78

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

No fingering in CLI & FE (→GE)

Chopin's fingering in FES

Fingering in EE
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We openly give the fingering added by Chopin in FES in bar 77 in the main text, as its universal character does not raise any doubts. Identical fingering was added by Fontana in EE, additionally complemented in bar 78.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FES