Issues : Authentic corrections of FC
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b. 15-16
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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According to us, the wedges visible in A in bar 15 (repeated in FE) and at the beginning of bar 16 (omitted) remained non-deleted as a result of Chopin's distraction. The distraction is proven by the rhythmic error committed earlier in this bar, while the intention to delete the staccato signs is proven by deletions of the signs or entire chords in the 1st half of bar 15 and a few previous bars. In the main text, we give three wedges in bar 16, added probably by Chopin in FC (→GE) and signalised also in EE (cf. bar 16). category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Authentic corrections of FC |
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b. 16
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The shorter slur of A (→FE) was extended in FC to the end of the bar. It is hard to suspect Fontana of such an arbitrary decision, hence it is almost certainly a Chopin correction. It allows us to consider the wedges present only in FC (→GE) to be most probably authentic. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Authentic corrections of FC |
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b. 17-19
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The initially written here three slurs, one in each bar, were then extended by Chopin in both preserved manuscripts, who connected the slurs between bars 18-19 in A, whereas in FC – between bars 17-18. In A, the situation is additionally complicated by the new line of text beginning in bar 18, as a result of which – as it is often to be encountered in Chopin autographs – it is unknown whether the slur in this bar is supposed to continue the one from bar 17 or not. The two possible interpretations resulting from this situation are reflected in the versions of FE and EE, which, however, feature the most probably inaccurately written ending of the slur in bar 19. In turn, GE inaccurately reproduced the ending of the slur in bar 18. In the main text we give the slurs of FC, corrected by Chopin's hand and compatible with the phrasing corresponding to the formal structure. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Corrections in A , Authentic corrections of FC , Tenuto slurs |
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b. 21
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The slur in FC was almost certainly added by Chopin, who added an analogous slur while proofreading FE. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Authentic corrections of FE , Authentic corrections of FC |
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b. 25-26
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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Lack of pedalling in A (→FE) is one of the examples of an incomplete coordination of corrections and additions introduced by Chopin in three Stichvorlage manuscripts. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Authentic corrections of FC |
