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Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

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b. 117

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

Staccato dot in A & GE2

No mark in GE1 (→FE→EE)
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The missing staccato dot is an oversight of GE1 (→FE→EE). See also bars 116-117.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 121-122

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

4 staccato dots in A

No marks in GE1 (→FE→EE)

2 dots in GE2
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The missing staccato dots under the E notes are certainly an oversight of GE1 (→FE→EE). The signs were added in GE2, yet only in bar 122, in which they are written more clearly in A.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 125-126

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

2 long accents in EE & GE2

Short & long accents in EE

2 short accents in GE2
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The accents in A are clearly long and this is how they were reproduced in GE1 (→FE). The engraver of EE, who, as it seems, considered long accents to be diminuendo signs, shortened the first one, most probably being convinced that it is an accent. In GE2 a similar operation was performed on both signs.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 127

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

 in A

 in GE

 in FE (→EE)
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Changes of the range of the  sign are most probably of an accidental nature. In the main text we reproduce the notation of A.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE

b. 130

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

Long R.H. accent in A (literal reading→GE→FE)

R.H. short accent in EE

L.H. long accent in A, interpretation suggested by the editors
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The interpretation of the long accent written in A presents difficulties: the sign is written in such a way that it can refer either to the minim in the R.H. or to f1 in the L.H. (a similar problem appears in the recapitulation, bar 278). According to us, it is more likely that Chopin wanted to draw attention to the chromatic transition of the tenor voice: f1-f1-[e1]. Shortening the accent in EE is a typical inaccuracy of this edition.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , EE inaccuracies , Inaccuracies in A