Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 55

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

Fingering written into FED

No fingering for teaching purposes suggested

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 55

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

 written in by mistake or by a foreign hand in A (→GE1)

 in FE (→EE), GE2 and GET

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A (→GE1) has a cautionary  before the upper note of the last sixth of the triplet, instructing us to read that note as c3. This is obviously a mistake, corrected in the proofing of FE (→EE), GE2 and GET.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Authentic corrections of FE , Annotations in GET

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 (→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

b. 60

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

Without an accent in A (→GEFEEE)

An accent added in FED

The editors' variant suggestion

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED