Issues : FE revisions

b. 3

composition: Op. 26 No 1, Polonaise in C♯ minor

No staccato dots in A & in repetition FE (→GE1)

Staccato dots in FE (1st time) & EE,GE2 (→GE3GE4GE5) (1st & 2nd time)

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The staccato dots for the 2nd chord are rather non-authentic. They were most probably added by the revisers, perhaps as a result of misinterpretation of A – one can see a minor fleck of ink between the beam and note head of the lowest note in the R.H. Moreover, the signs were added inconsistently: FE (→GE1) includes dots only the first time (in GE1 only over the R.H.), yet they are absent in the repetition. The revisers of EE and GE2 (→GE3GE4GE5) added dots in both situations.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , FE revisions

b. 13-79

composition: Op. 26 No 1, Polonaise in C♯ minor

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In the editions, almost all signs of accents were represented as short accents – the engraver of FE (→GE1) correctly placed the only long accent in bar 63, yet in EE and GE2 (→GE3GE4GE5) it was changed to a short one. According to us, the notation of the majority of the accents of A clearly indicates their interpretation as long accents. Apart from the aforementioned, in the manuscript there is a specific for Chopin, rarely present sign of an inverted long accent – see bar 47.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Long accents , EE revisions , GE revisions , FE revisions

b. 44

composition: Op. 26 No 1, Polonaise in C♯ minor

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In A (→FE1) Chopin wrote cautionary  for d2 and din the R.H. The signs were removed in FE2 (→GE,EE). According to us, the addition is also unnecessary.

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issues: FE revisions

b. 76

composition: Op. 26 No 1, Polonaise in C♯ minor

Long accent in A

Short accent in FE (→GE,EE)

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FE (→GE,EE) rendered a clearly long accent in A as short, a patent imprecision.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , FE revisions