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Op. 22, Polonaise

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b. 57

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

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In the main text we add a  before e2, the 10th note from the end of the bar. Due to the previous  before e3, this accidental was sometimes considered superfluous – it is absent in FE (→GE1) – yet it was added in EE and GE2 (→GE3). Moreover, we add a cautionary  before b2 by the end of the run.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , Errors repeated in GE

b. 57

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

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The sources are lacking in the accidental before the 2nd played note of the run. It must be Chopin's mistake (one of the most frequent ones – oversight of an alteration's cancellation), since a2 would have suggested a turn towards B major (G minor), and not F minor, whose dominant we are about to hear. Due to the absence of this accidental, a2 should also be in the ending of the run.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 59-60

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

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EE1 is lacking in the accidentals before the last semiquaver in b. 59 and the 4th note of the quintuplet in b. 60. These are patent mistakes – cf. the  lowering d2 to d2 in analogous b. 21 – probably committed still in [A], from which they got into EE1 through a proof copy of FE. In the very FE (→GE) Chopin not only added both flats in the last stage of proofreading, but also a cautionary  before d3 at the end of b. 60. All 3 accidentals were also added in EE2.
The same in b. 203-204.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Omission of current key accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 61

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

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FE (→GE,EE) are lacking in the  restoring d2 on the 6th note of the run. In EE it is also the  restoring e2 two notes later that is missing. In practice, these mistakes are of no major significance, since there is no doubt that we are dealing with a chromatic sequence. See also b. 205.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

b. 62

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

c3 in FE (→GE)

a2 in EE
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The version of EE is most probably the original version adopted from FE (or merely a Terzverschreibung), corrected in the very FE (→GE) in the last stage of proofreading. The same in b. 206.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors in FE , Terzverschreibung error , Authentic corrections of FE