mUltimate Chopin

Op. 24 No. 1, Mazurka in G minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Select: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Notation
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Importance
All
Important
Main
Undo Clear

b. 17-29

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

A and GE2 (→GE3): 4 dots in bars 17, 21, 25, 29

GE1 (→FE): 2 dots in bars 21 and 29

EE: one dot in bar 21
..

In A, Chopin marked staccato for the F notes in bars 17, 21, 25 and 29. In GE1 (→FE→EE), the dots were omitted in bars 17 and 25, and in EE also in bar 29. The reviewer of GE2 (→GE3) supplemented the missing dots, possibly on the basis of A.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 17-18

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

The slur in A (→GE1→FE→EE)

GE2 (→GE3)
..

The point where the slur begins in that bar in  A is fairly obvious. The change introduced in GE2 (→GE3) results more from comparing versions of analogous bars 21-22, 25-26 and 29-30 than from any extra careful reading of A.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , GE revisions

b. 17-21

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

..

Visible in A over the triplet in bars 17 and 21 are erasures that point to corrections made by Chopin in those places.  It is hard to give an obvious explanation as to what was being changed, yet it seems probable that Chopin was removing a numeral and a slur defining the triplet (moving the slur under the triplet and extending it one note further) to insert a motivic long accent instead. 

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A

b. 18-19

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

The slur in A (→GE)

FE (→EE)
..

The slur of A (→GE) embraces only bar 19. When proofing FE (→EE),  Chopin moved the beginning of that slur one note earlier, making the phrase-marking here identical with the one in bars 22-23. He also made an almost identical change of phrasing in bars 30-31.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

b. 19

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

Fingering added in bar 27 in FES

No fingering hint provided
..

We give the fingering for this phrase (entered by Chopin for the recurrence of an analogous phrase) upon its first occurrence. 

category imprint: Editorial revisions