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Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

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b. 1

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

Title & dedication in A

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 A 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 8, Etude in D♭ major

molto legato in A (→GE) & EE

legato in FE
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It is unclear how the difference in the indications arose. FE does not bear any traces of correction (deletion of molto). In the main text we reproduce the notation of A (→GE) and EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 1

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

mezza voce in A (→GE) & EE

No indication in FE
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According to us, it is an oversight that is a more likely explanation for the absence of the mezza voce indication in FE rather than a possible Chopin's correction, whose effect would be a total resignation from indicating dynamics at the beginning of the piece.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE

b. 19

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

 in A (→GE) & EE3

 in FE

 in EE1 (→EE2)

 suggested by the editors
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The type of the sign indicating the local culmination and its exact placement raise some doubts here:

  •  present in A (→GE) could have been replaced with  in the base texts to FE and EE1, which, in this situation, would have been Chopin's latest decision;
  • the  signs in FE and EE1 (→EE2) are placed slightly later and in different places, hence one can suspect an inaccurate reproduction of Chopin's notation or its misunderstanding.

In the main text we suggest a  as a result of Chopin's possible correction, placed in accordance with the musical sense at the beginning of the bar.

EE3 adopted the version of GE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: fz – f , Centrally placed marks

b. 19-20

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

dim. - - in A

dim. in FE

dimin. in GE

dim. - - in EE

dim. - - suggested by the editors
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The effect of diminuendo, indicated by Chopin in these bars, results from the previous  or  at the beginning of bar 19. As in the main text we adopt  after FE and EE, we give dim. also on the basis of these sources (at the end of bar 19). In A Chopin moved this indication half a bar later (to bar 20); this correction could have been performed still before introducing  instead of .
The total or partial lack of dashes marking the range of diminuendo is almost certainly a result of an inaccurate reproduction of notation of the handwritten base texts by the engravers.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Corrections in A