mUltimate Chopin

Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description

Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 55

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

..

The visible in FED deletion of the second of the grace notes indicating the beginning of the trill does not influence the performance, yet it proves that Chopin notation was incomprehensible already for some of his pupils. The notation – indicating the beginning of the trill from the bottom second  – remains one of the most frequent reasons of misinterpretation of the Chopin text.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 56

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Fingering digit written in FED

No teaching fingering
..

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 58

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

No mark in GC (→GE), FE & EE

Accent in FES

Our suggestion
..

In the main text we give the long accent, written in FES, in brackets as authentic and unobvious interpretation suggestion.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 60-61

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
..

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 62

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

 in GC (→GE) & EE

Accent in FE

Accent &  in FES
..

The  sign, added by Chopin in FES, proves that the different indications present, on the one hand, in FE (accent) and, on the other, in GC (→GE) and EE (crescendo), may be considered as complementary. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Inaccuracies in FE , Annotations in FES , Authentic corrections of FE