mUltimate Chopin

GE2

Main text

A - Autograph

FE - French edition

FE1 - First French edition

FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1

FED - Dubois copy

FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy

FES - Stirling copy

GE - German edition

GE1 - First German edition

GE2 - Second German Edition

GE3 - Third German edition

GE4 - Revised impression of GE3

GE5 - Corrected reprint of GE4

EE - English edition

EE1 - First English edition

EE2 - Revised impression of EE1

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b. 29

		A-B in A, FE2 (→EE) & GE5
		A-B suggested by the editors
		A-B in FE1
		A-B in GE1 (→GE2)
		A-H in GE3 (→GE4)

The oversight of in FE1 (→EE) next to the second grace note could have been caused by the unclear notation of A – due to the cramped notation of grace notes (probably added later) is almost illegible. The correct version was returned in FE2 (→EE), most probably as a result of Chopin's correction. In GE1 (→GE2) the clearly erroneous version of FE1 was revised, by changing the 1st grace note to A. Another revision was performed in GE3 (→GE4), by deleting the next to the 1st grace note. The correct text was introduced only in GE5, probably after comparison with FE2.

In the main text we remove the unnecessary next to the minim, most probably being a trace of the original version without the grace notes beginning the trill.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors in FE, Errors in EE, Errors in GE, Authentic corrections of FE, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa

Op. 26 No 1, Polonaise in C♯ minor