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Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt II

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Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 75

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

Synchronization mark in FED

No mark in remaining sources
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The line indicating the moment of playing the first grace note (together with the bass note) was added – most probably by Chopin – in FED.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Synchronization markings

b. 77

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

g in A

B-g in GE (→FE→EE)

B in FES
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The version of A is, according to us, the only authentic text of this place. The sixth in GE (→FE→EE) is almost certainly a result of a misinterpretation of A – the engraver of GE1 considered the original ending of the stem of the g quaver with a characteristic "hook" to be the B note. Deletion of this note in FES is probably a mistake too – the person who wrote this, perhaps Chopin himself, seeing two notes, out of which one was to be deleted and the other preserved, combined these two thoughts in one activity, by deleting the note that was supposed to stay (a similar mistake was committed in FES also in the Sonata in B minor, Op. 58, the 3rd mov. – in bar 28 a  was added, confirming the erroneous text, instead of the mistakenly overlooked  lowering a1 to a1). 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Errors resulting from corrections , Errors in GE , Annotations in FES

b. 80

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

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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The double use of the 1st finger was written in FED by Chopin and then again by the pupil.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 83

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

Sixth e2-c3 in A

Octave c2-c3 in GE1 (→FE)

Octave e2-e3 in EE, FED, FEJ, FES & GE2
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Both the sixth present in A and the c2-c3 octave in GE1 (→FE) are almost certainly mistakes – cf. analogous bar 15. In A Chopin wrote one ledger line too little (errors in the number of ledger lines are – except for accidentals – definitely the most frequent type of his pitch errors), whereas the change in GE1 may be explained by an editorial revision, a misunderstanding at the time of proofreading or a common mistake. Chopin wrote the correct text in all three pupils' copies. The version of EE and GE2 are most probably revisions, introduced on the basis of comparison with analogous bar 15.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Terzverschreibung error , GE revisions , Errors in the number of ledger lines , Errors of A , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEJ

b. 83

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

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In FE the minim in the 2nd half of the bar is an erroneous c1-d1. The mistake was corrected in EE as well as in FES.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Errors in FE , Annotations in FES