mUltimate Chopin

Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
A
Main text
AI - Working autograph
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 70

Two  signs in A

FE (→GE1→GE1a) & EE3 (→EE4)

One sign in GE2 (→#GE3G4→GE5)

Slur &  suggested by the editors

Two  signs in A – reproduced slightly inaccurate in FE (→GE1→GE1a) and EE3 (→EE4) – may be a result of Chopin's mistake, who, while adding (probably in a hurry) the performance indications, wrote hairpins instead of a slur. It is indicated by the comparison with analogous bar 17. Due to this fact, in the main text we suggest a slur instead of the top  sign. Chopin indications were considered as erroneous already in GE2 (→GE3→GE4→GE5).

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Errors in EE, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa