mUltimate Chopin

Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
A
Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's Copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected reprint of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected reprint of GE1
GE1b - Flawed impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 49-50

No signs in A (→FE)

  in FC (→GE)

 in EE1 (→EE2)

  in EE3

In the main text we give a pair of   hairpins introduced probably by Chopin in FC (→GE). In EE, the  sign begins earlier, while the second was overlooked (except for EE3, in which  was added according to GE). In A (→FE) this detail – as majority of the dynamic indications in bars 39-53 – was not marked.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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