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Op. 22, Polonaise

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Issues : EE revisions

b. 51-52

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

No slurs in FE

2 slurs in GE & EE
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The missing slurs must be a mistake of FE, in which these bars are separated by the transition into a new line. When repeated a bar later, this motif is already provided with slurs, which proves the mistake, as a result of which corresponding additions were already introduced in GE and EE. See also the note above. A similar situation can be found in b. 195-196.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions

b. 52-53

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

No marks in FE (→GE)

Staccato dots in EE
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In the main text we add staccato dots under the B1 bass notes in these bars. There is no doubt that they should be performed with the same articulation as b. 51, hence Chopin could have considered the dot put the first time to be enough. It cannot be ruled out that the engraver of FE forgot to add a dot in a new line. Dots were added in EE. A similar situation can be found in b. 196-197.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions

b. 53-54

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

No  in FE (→GE1)

 in EE & GE2 (→GE3)

[] suggested by the editors
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According to us, the pedal pressed at the beginning of b. 53 should be held to the end of b. 54; therefore, in the main text we suggest adding a  mark here. The mark was added here already in EE as well as in GE2 (→GE3). A similar situation can be found in b. 197-198.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , No pedal release mark

b. 53-54

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

Short & 3 long accents in FE

4 short accents in GE

4 vertical accents in EE
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Three accents in b. 54 are slightly longer in FE, moved to the right and inclined, which, according to us, means that a different accent should be applied (with respect to the previous ones). Therefore, in the main text we reproduce them as long accents. The described difference was not considered significant in GE, whereas EE changed these accents to vertical ones. However, since it was also the last accent in b. 53 that was reproduced as vertical in EE, this change most probably was not related to the graphic representation of the accents in FE – arbitrary changes of accents to vertical ones are generally typical of EE – cf. b. 47-50.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE

b. 57

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

Run begins with b2 in FE (→GE)

Run begins with g2 in EE
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It is unclear whether the version of EE is the original notation, changed in FE (→GE) in the penultimate stage of proofreading, or a revision of EE. According to us, the former is much more likely.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE