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Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

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b. 5

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

Fingering in FEJ

No teaching fingering
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To the main text we adopt the Chopinesque fingering, written in pencil in FEJ.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEJ

b. 5-6

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

3 short accents in FE (→GE,EE)

3 long accents suggested by the editors
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In all sources, 3 subsequent accents in bars 5-6 are short. We consider it to be an inaccuracy of the engraver and suggest long accents in the main text:

  • long notes – in this case dotted g1 minims – are generally provided with long accents by Chopin;
  • the motif at the end of bar 5 is a repetition of the motif in bar 4, in which a long accent is unquestionable in FE.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , EE inaccuracies

b. 6

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

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We add a cautionary  next to b in the main text.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 7

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

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In the chord in the middle of the bar, GE1 has a b crotchet instead of an a minim, whereas the f minim is assigned to the L.H. The reviser of GE2 corrected only the pitch of that note, leaving the erroneous rhythmic value and division into parts. It is unclear how those mistakes occurred, yet the correctness of the version of FE (→EE) is unquestionable.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 13

composition: Op. 16, Rondo in E♭ major

in FE (→EE)

in GE
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Change of  to  is a quite common mistake in the first editions of Chopin's pieces – cf. e.g. the Etude in C Minor, Op. 10 No. 4, bar 1.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , fz – f