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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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b. 55

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In FED there is a pencilled entry, probably coming from Chopin – deletion of the erroneously written  lowering g2 to g2 and addition of the correct sign lowering e2 to e2.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 56

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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FE1 overlooks the  raising f to f at the beginning of the bar. In FE this note is placed on the lower staff, hence the error also affects the 4th L.H. semiquaver. This layout was applied in other sources as well, except for GE2 (→GE3) which placed the R.H. part on the upper staff throughout, as in our transcriptions. This resulted in  before the 4th semiquaver being necessary only in the impressions of the 2nd German edition.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 56

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In EE the second semiquaver in the L.H. has an erroneous e instead of c.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE , Terzverschreibung error

b. 56

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

 in A (→FE,EE)

 in GC

GE
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GC (→GE) has  instead of . It is almost certainly an error resulting from the copyist's misunderstanding of the layout of three lines, creating in A the  hairpins and the slur in the L.H.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Sign reversal , Errors of GC

b. 56

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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In A (→GC,FE) the  lowering e2 to e2 was overlooked. The accidental was added in EE and GE. All sources have a  (cautionary?) next to f1 in the same semiquaver. We omit this superfluous sign in the main text.

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

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Cautionary accidentals , Omission of current key accidentals , Inaccuracies in GC , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE