Issues : Rhythmic errors
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b. 15
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The second chord in the R.H. is a crotchet both in the upper and lower voices. Hence the lower voice has 9 quavers in this bar. The error resulted from hastily performed articulation corrections – Chopin would delete the staccato signs written inside the chords, which, in some cases, required rewriting the entire chord; omission of the quaver flag occurred exactly in the last rewritten chord. category imprint: Source & stylistic information issues: Errors resulting from corrections , Rhythmic errors , Errors of A |
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b. 52
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composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor
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The seemingly erroneous notation of A and of the remaining sources (except for GE2 and GE3) could have been intended by Chopin, although in this Etude, he used the notation compliant with the rules in similar cases. In other pieces, rhythmic values exceeding the bar were used by Chopin both in autographs (e.g., the Concerto in F minor, Op. 21, 1st mov., bars 278-279, 3rd mov., bars 423-424) and corrections of print (the Polonaise in C category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: GE revisions , Rhythmic errors , Errors of A |
minor, Op. 26 No. 1, bars 19-20). On the other hand, one cannot exclude a simple oversight of the quaver flag (cf.