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Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

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Issues : Annotations in FEJ

b. 49-50

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

Dynamic markings in A (→GE→FE→EE)

 added in FED, FEJ, FES

 and  in FEFr

The editors' proposal
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We perceive the indication  in bar 50, added by Chopin in the three teaching copies and written into FEFr, to be part of a definitive change of the dynamic concept in several fragments of the Nocturne (cf. bars 25-26, 45-46, 52). The   noted by Franchomme in FEFr naturally supplements that change.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEFr , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Annotations in FEJ

b. 52

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

con forza in A (→GE→FE→EE)

Deleted in FES and removed from FEFr

Probable reading of the entry in FEJ

The variant proposal of the editors
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The indication con forza occurring in A (→GE>FE→EE) was deleted by Chopin in FEJ and FES, and removed by Franchomme from FEFr. We perceive those actions as the part of the radically altered concept for the dynamics in that part of the Nocturne (see bars 49-50). We also suggest the possibility of taking into account the somewhat unclear entry in FEJ.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEFr , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Annotations in FEJ

b. 54

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

Fingering of  FEJ

 

No fingering suggested
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEJ

b. 58

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

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FEJ has octave signs (8)​ written and crossed out under the1st and the 7th quaver. Those signs were probably mistakenly written one bar too early. 

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEJ

b. 59-60

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

No octaves in  A (→GE→FE→EE)

Two octaves in FED and FEJ

Three octaves in FES

The editors' variant proposal
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In the three teaching copies, the bass notes in  bar 59 were doubled with lower octaves. In FES the octave progression is consistently brought to the beginning of bar 60. In our opinion this means that Chopin considered the version with the octaves at least equivalent to the version of A (→GE→FE→EE), in which single notes appear.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Annotations in FEJ , Bass register changes , Abbreviated octaves' notation