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Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

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Issues : Annotations in FES

b. 35

composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

Fingering in FES

No teaching fingering provided
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 42

composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

Fingering in FES

No fingering suggested
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 49

composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

Without teaching fingering

Possibly a fingering numeral in  FES
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The sign added in FES may be interpreted as a fingering numeral 1. However, the editors do not find this reading obvious, as the use of any other finger would be so unnatural that it is actually hard to envisage the need for indicating the use of the 1st finger here. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 57

composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

The version of A

d1 not prolonged in GE

A stem and a dot added for d1 in FE (→EE)

The enriched version of FES
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The versions of A, GE and FE (→EE) differ only in the accuracy of notation of the sustained note d1. In FES Chopin entered a different, melodically richer version of that bar that, in our opinion, may be regarded at least on a par with the version of FE. Cf. bar 59.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Inaccuracies in GE , Annotations in FES , Authentic corrections of FE , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Main-line changes

b. 59

composition: Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

Crotchets in A (→GE→FE)

Crotchets in EE (without the second slur)

Quavers entered in FES

Quavers and a slur in FED
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In the main text we give the version written into FES and FED. The remaining sources have the version as in bar 3 and analogous bars. That type of adding variety to the melodic line is very characteristic of Chopin. He introduced similar changes, also as later corrections, in Mazurka in C major no. 2, bars 102-103, and also in other works.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Main-line changes