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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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Issues : Errors of GC

b. 183

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

e1 in A (→FE,EE)

f1 in GC (→GE)

e1 with  suggested by the editors
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The version with f1 occurring in GC (→GE) is certainly mistaken – in the copy the note in question was not changed from the A version, and there is no clear reason for this bar to differ from the analogous bar 179. In the main text we add a cautionary  before that e1.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors of GC

b. 186

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Last semiquaver e1-e2 in A (→FE,EE) & GE3

f1-f2 in GC (→GE1→GE2)
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The version in GC (→GE1→GE2) is undoubtedly mistaken – cf. the previous bar. The error was corrected only in GE3.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC

b. 189-190

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Slurs in A (→FE,EE)

No slurs in GC (→GE)
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In GC (→GE) there are no slurs combining the last two quavers in the L.H. in bars 189 and 190.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC

b. 193-194

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Slurs from 5th quaver in A

Slur from 4th quaver in GC (→GE)

No slurs in FE

Slurs from 4th quaver in EE
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In GC (→GE), the missing second slur in bar 193 is undoubtedly an oversight. The second slur in bar 194 encompasses – in distinct contrast to A – the entire 2nd half of the bar. Three-note slurs in the 2nd halves of these bars occur also in EE. The slurs in A pertain clearly to the last two quavers, and their relatively long ends were presumably meant to distinguish them from semiquaver beams in the R.H.
FE overlooked both slurs.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Inaccuracies in GC , Errors of GC

b. 195

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Arpeggio signs in A (→FE,EE)

No signs in GC (→GE)
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The lack of arpeggio signs in GC (→GE) is most probably an oversight by the copyist.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC