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Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

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Issues : Errors in EE

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 c2 after the preceding it d2. FE repeated the mistake of GE1 and added a new one, by overlooking e 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. 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 c1 instead 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

b. 85

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

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A typical Chopin oversight – a missing  restoring e2 – was not corrected in any of the editions. It is particularly bizarre in FE where the  before e2 was removed, unnecessarily repeated on the 4th semiquaver in A (→GE).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE , Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors in GE , Cautionary accidentals , Errors of A , FE revisions

b. 139

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

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In A Chopin overlooked the  restoring a1, which was not noticed in any of the editions. Similarly in analogous bar 287.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE , Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors in GE , Errors of A

b. 149-150

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

4 slurs in A & GE2

1 slur in GE1 →FE)

No slurs in EE
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Four little slurs written in A from the grace notes to the opposite notes of the octaves emphasise the expressive character of the octave mini-motifs. The detail was fully reproduced only in GE2 – in the previous editions the majority of the little slurs was overlooked (in EE all of them).

category imprint: Differences between sources

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