Issues : Inaccuracies in FE
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b. 1
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The use of category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Changes of metre , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , 4/4 or 2/2 |
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b. 9-10
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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It is unclear whether taking the decision to indicate articulation of the R.H. with the help of verbal indications, Chopin wanted to resign from the previously written staccato signs. Beginning from bar 11, Chopin deleted them in A, so that the fact of leaving them in bars 9-10 proves, according to us, an unfinished correction due to distraction. Hence our suggestion of the main text. However, Chopin could have left double indications (with words and signs) at the beginning of the new section on purpose. Taking into account visible inaccuracies resulting from graphical difficulties, it is the notation of GE2 (→GE3) that is the version which expresses this intention best. The version of FE and EE can also pretend to be authentic (accepted by Chopin). category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations issues: Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , Wedges , Inaccuracies in 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. 25-26
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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In A (→FE) there are no wedges in the L.H. in the 2nd half of bar 25 and in bar 26 (as well as in bar 38). This patent inaccuracy was completed in FC (→GE) and EE. In turn, FE overlooked two signs more, on the 3rd and 4th quaver in bar 25. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Inaccurate slurs in A |
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b. 30-32
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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In spite of the clearly divided slurs of A (→FC), both FE and GE1 embrace these three bars with one slur. The slur of EE is the original version, not corrected by Chopin in the base text to this edition (the extension of the slur is visible in A and most probably in FC). category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , Corrections in A , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FC , Tenuto slurs |
time signature is not surprising only in 
indication in the Etudes – contrary to the manuscripts – at all, neither in 
major, 
