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Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

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b. 165

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

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FE (→EE) has a cautionary  before g2 in the 5th crotchet of the bar. It is hard to state how the difference between GC and FE occurred – the copyist might have simply overlooked this sign or realised that it is superfluous. Moreover, one cannot exclude an addition made to [A] after GC had already been prepared or a mistake of the engraver of FE. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 166

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

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In the main text we add a cautionary  before c2.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 168

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

g2 in GC (→GE) & FE1 (→FE2→FE3,EE1)

g2 in FE4 & EE2
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It is hard to state whether the  added – probably by Chopin – in FE4 was a correction of a mistake or a change of the concept. According to us, the first possibility seems to be more likely.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

b. 169

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

Slur in GC, literal reading

Arpeggio sign in GC, contextual interpretation

No sign in FE (→EE1)

Tie to grace note in GE & EE2
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The tie visible in GC before the chord means an arpeggio in this context. The version of GE, repeated then in EE2, is a result of a routine revision – the sign was moved to the side of the note head of the d1 grace note, which gave it a form of a tie sustaining the grace note (cf. the note on the part of the L.H.). No slur in FE (→EE1) is most probably an oversight.

FE1 includes an erroneous c1 as the grace note, which was corrected in the next impressions.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions , FE revisions

b. 169

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

Slur up to f in GC

Slur up to B in FE (→EE)

Slur below notes in GE
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In the main text we reproduce the little slur running from the grace note in the version of GC, in this case probably closest to [A]. The little slur can be, according to us, interpreted as a conventional sign, by playing the grace note and the fifth, or as a B1-B-f arpeggio. The notation of FE (→EE) is most probably inaccurate (cf. the adjacent note), whereas of GE – routinely revised; at the same time, both eliminate the possibility of a double interpretation.  

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions