mUltimate Chopin

Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
Main text
A - Autograph
GC - Gutmann's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FE3 - Corrected impression of FE2
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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Staccato dots in A (→EE,GC→GE)

Wedges in FE

Two staccato marks written in A seem to be dots despite being bigger than usual – possibly Chopin emboldened them to make them better visible. FE read them as wedges.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Wedges, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris