Issues : Annotations in FES

b. 51

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

A synchronization mark in FES

No mark entered

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The marks entered in FES (a line and a cross) point to the moment of beginning of the run that ends the trill.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Synchronization markings , Annotations in FES

b. 52

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

Fingering entered into FED

No teaching fingering provided

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The numbers entered into FES probably mean the same fingering as that written out in by Chopin in FED.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES

b. 52

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

con forza in A (→GEFEEE)

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>FEEE) 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. 52

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

Fingering written into FES

A less probable interpretation of the fingering in FED

2 interpretations of the fingering in FED

A more probable interpretation of FED

No suggested fingering

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We take into account the unquestionable and natural fingering written into FES. The fingering in FED is difficult to read: it was probably written two times and it is not clear whether the same digits were written twice (121), or whether they were different digits (121 and 14). Therefore we give both options as variants. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES

b. 59-60

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

No octaves in  A (→GEFEEE)

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 (→GEFEEE), 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