Issues : Errors in FE

b. 23-24

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

Long accents in A

Short accents in GE

No marks in FE (→EE)

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The accent in A in bar 23 is not a typical long accent, yet the musical context and analogy with the next bar encourage us to consider it a long one. The missing signs in FE (→EE) may be explained with an oversight of the engraver; however, it is also possible that the signs were added in the last stage of proofreading of GE1.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors in FE , Inaccuracies in GE

b. 26

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

Long accent in A (probable reading)

2 accents in GE1

Accent in FE (→EE)

2 accents in GE2

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The accent over the fminim visible in A may be interpreted as short or long. Among the remaining versions, the text of GE1 could have come from Chopin; however, an unambiguous, comprehensive reconstruction of the course of possible corrections of first editions does not seem to be possible in this place. Taking into account the fact that each notation emphasises – in one way or another – a syncopated entrance of a new, altered chord, in the main text we leave the undoubtedly authentic notation of A (in the version with a long accent, more likely in this context).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors in FE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of GE

b. 29

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

B-c-e-g in A

B-d-e-g in GE & EE

Different chords in FE

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The version of GE is almost certainly erroneous: the engraver of GE1 generalised the pattern of the previous bars, in which the chords are unchanged. The version is contrary both to A and Morch, in which in the oboe and 2nd violin parts there is cafter the preceding it d2. FE repeated the mistake of GE1 and added a new one, by overlooking in the last chord. A possibility of a Chopin proofreading in any of these editions is, according to us, to be excluded in this case. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 31

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

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FE overlooked  raising e2 to e2. The error was corrected in EE and FED.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED

b. 41

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

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The natural before the initial third was misplaced in FE: before cinstead of a. The mistake went to EE1, where the "superfluous" sign was omitted. Chopin added the necessary sign in FED; EE2 (→EE3) also includes the correct text.  

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , Errors in EE