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Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt III

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Issues : Rhythmic errors

b. 35

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

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In FE all 5 notes in the part of the R.H. are combined with a quaver beam. The patent mistake was corrected in EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Rhythmic errors

b. 489-490

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

Semiquavers in A, contextual interpretation

24 demisemi­quavers in GE1 (→FE→EE)

24 demisemi­quavers in GE2
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In this place, Chopin wrote a combination of trill with tremolando (cf. 1st mov., bar 335) in a precise manner, with notes, determining even the number of touches (in each bar 3 groups of 4). However, he committed a mistake while marking their value as demisemiquavers instead of semiquavers, which may suggest twice the number of required notes. This is how this mistake was revised in GE (→FE→EE), increasing the number of touches to 8 in each of the groups. It resulted in an unreasonable notation, since it is impossible to perform a thick tremolando in the tempo marked by Chopin, or even close to the Chopinesque one.
According to us, it was the piano reality that induced Chopin to apply a different notation than in the aforementioned situation from the 1st mov. of the Concerto (used then two more times in the 1st mov. of the Concerto in E minor, op. 11) – using trill in the notation suggests a certain freedom in the choice of the number of performed oscillations, whereas in the discussed place the fast tempo does not allow such a freedom.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Rhythmic errors , Errors of A