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Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

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Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

b. 50

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

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Chopin added the hairpin  while proofreading FE (→GE,EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

b. 51-64

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

  in A

FE (→EE)

GE
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We give the pairs of hairpins appearing in bars 51-53 and 59-64 under similar figures in the L.H. in a unified version for each of the sources (applies also to bar 62, discussed separately).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , Scope of dynamic hairpins

b. 51-63

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

 in A

FE (→GE,EE) 

Our suggestion
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In A the motifs in the R.H. in the 2nd halves of bars 51-53 and 60-63 are provided with  hairpins of varied range. According to us, it should be related to the clearly less diligent notation of this page in A (cf., e.g., the remark on accidentals). In similar situations in the first section of the Etude (bars 10-13 and 20-23) the hairpins always (eight times) embrace entire motifs. This is how the marks were generally reproduced in the editions, except for bar 52 (the mark starts later, in accordance with A) and separately discussed bars 53 (reversed mark) and 62 (omission). In the main text we suggest a unified version of the hairpins, compatible with the natural, and in this case rather obvious, musical sense.  

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Scope of dynamic hairpins

b. 52

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

 in A

No mark in FE (→GE,EE) 
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Lack of the  hairpins in FE (→GE,EE) is almost certainly the engraver's oversight. In analogous bar 12, in which there is no mark in A, Chopin added the hairpins at the time of proofreading FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 53

composition: Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

 in A

 in FE (→GE,EE) 
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We give the  hairpins written in A. In the editions the direction of the mark was changed, which is a characteristic error, often encountered in the first editions of Chopin's works (cf., e.g., the Nocturne in D major, Op. 27 No. 2, bar 6).  

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Sign reversal