mUltimate Chopin

Op. 25 No 5, Etude in E minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description

Issues : EE revisions

b. 85-88

composition: Op. 25 No 5, Etude in E minor

..

GE arbitrarily added rests completing the bottom voice of the L.H. – two in bar 85 (only in GE2 and GE3) and one in bar 89 (in all GE). Rests in bar 85 were added also in EE3.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 122

composition: Op. 25 No 5, Etude in E minor

d in chord in FC (→GE1), FE & EE1

d in EE2 (→EE3) & GE2 (→GE3)

d suggested by the editors
..

The sharp before the bottom note of the chord appears only in the later sources, bearing traces of an intense editorial revision – EE2 (→EE3) and GE2 (→GE3). The revisers could have considered the  in the next bar – written probably due to the simultaneously stroke d1 in the R.H. – to be a signal that there should be a  before the discussed note. In the main text we give the unambiguous version of FC (→GE1), FE and EE1, in which the bass line features a repetition of the sound at the transition between the bars, so characteristic for leading voices in this Etude. In order to avoid doubts, we provide this note with a cautionary natural. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions