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Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

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Issues : Errors in FE

b. 28

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

e2 in A (→GE)

c2 in FE (→EE)
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The less pianistically convenient c2 instead of e2 is almost certainly a Terzverschreibung error of the engraver of FE (→EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE , Terzverschreibung error

b. 31

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

Slurs in A

GE1

EE (→EE1)

EE2 (→EE3)

GE2
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It is hard to understand what the rationale of the engraver of GE1 was when he was drawing slurs so dissimilar to the notation of A. It may be that the slur beginning over the trill in bar 31 was added in the last stage of proofreading as an ad hoc, simplified correction: it is absent in FE (→EE1; in later EE the slur was added). This time, GE2 did not restore the slurs of A; it only removed the slur above the sextuplet.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 36

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

Long accent in A

Short accent in GE1

No mark in FE (→EE)

Short accent in GE2
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The sign of an accent in GE1 is doubly inaccurate: short and placed after the chord it concerns in the very legible notation of A. Overlooked in FE (→EE), it was moved to the right place in GE2 (without changes in shape).

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 39

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

Grace note b2 in A, FES & GE2

a2 in GE1 (→FE→EE)
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The version with the a2 grace note present in GE1 (→FE→EE) is almost certainly a mistake, which is confirmed by the correction of this note written in FES. The version of A was restored also in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Errors in FE , Errors in EE , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Annotations in FES

b. 40

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

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In the sources the  returning d2 is missing both before the last demisemiquaver and the next two notes at that pitch. Chopin's oversight is undeniable, yet if we were to evaluate the sound only, one can ponder whether the  was supposed to be already before the last demisemiquaver or only before the dotted quaver in the middle of the bar. From the psychological point of view, the second possibility is much more likely: it is hard to assume that Chopin would have forgotten an accidental differentiating two adjacent notes in a chromatic passage. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

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