Issues : GE revisions

b. 1

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

Title & dedication in GC

Title & dedication in GE1

Title & dedication in GE2 (→GE3)

Title & dedication in FE

Title & dedication in EE1 & EE3

Title in EE2

Our suggestion

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In the main text we give the title and dedication after the title page of the entire opus in GC and FE.
See the Etude in A major, No. 1. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Dedications , GE revisions

b. 1

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

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In GC (→GE1) and EE there is no  returning f at the beginning of the 2nd group of semiquavers of the introduction, which almost certainly corresponds to the notation of [A]. It is a very typical mistake of Chopin – cf., e.g., the Nocturne in Cminor, Op. 27 No. 1, bar 83, or the Impromptu in A major, Op. 29, bar 71. The sign was added in the proofreading of FE, most probably by Chopin, as well as in GE2 (→GE3). 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE , Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 1

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

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We add a cautionary  before b. A similar addition was already added in GE and EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 3

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

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The cautionary  before was added in EE and GE2 (→GE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 9-10

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

No slurs in GC (→GE1)

One-bar slur in FE

Two-bar slur in EE

Slurs in GE2 (→GE3)

Our suggestion

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Both the absence of the slur in GC (→GE1) and the one-bar slur of FE have to be considered as an inaccuracy of notation. In turn, the slur of EE is most probably authentic and we adopt it as the base of the main text. However, we shift its beginning in such a way that it included also the grace note, as it can be seen in analogous situations in GC (bars 1 and 45) and FE (bar 45). It cannot be excluded that the copyist confused the staves and wrote the slur of the L.H., running from the beginning of the bar, over the R.H. A two-bar slur was added also in GE2 (→GE3), together with a conventional slur of the grace note.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , Errors of GC