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Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

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b. 281

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering
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The fingerings written by Chopin in FED and FEH are compliant. In the main text, we include the more precise indications of FED.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 281-282

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

FE (→EE,GE1→GE2)

GE3
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The position of ritenuto in FE (→EE,GE1→GE2), i.e. the end of bar 281, is probably erroneous:

  • adopting the natural assumption that ritenuto is to be applied until risoluto in bar 283 (cf. bars 407-408), we are faced with an almost a bar-and-a-half-long slowdown, the longest of the ones marked by Chopin in this movement of the Concerto. After a merely 8-bar-long prelude to the final figurational section of the exposition; according to us, such a pronounced slowdown is unjustified;
  • the 3rd beat of bar 281 and the 2nd of bar 282 are graphically identical, which could have provoked the engraver's mistake.

A corresponding change was suggested already in GE3.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 281-295

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

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b. 282

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

No teaching fingering

Fingering written into FEH
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEH

b. 283-286

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

No L.H. slurs in FE (→EE,GE1→GE2)

Slurs in GE3

Slurs suggested by the editors
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In such a quasi-parallel figuration, the slurs in the R.H. generally apply also to the L.H., particularly when both parts are written, partially or completely, on one stave. Therefore, the source notation without separate slurs for the L.H. may be considered to be complete. However, at the repetition of this fragment (bars 299-302), Chopin provided with slurs also the L.H., which, according to us, indicates rather the need to specify the notation than to differentiate between the markings of both four-bar fragments. Due to this reason, in the main text we suggest adding slurs of the L.H. Slurs were introduced already in GE3. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions