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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.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions
issues: GE revisions
notation: Verbal indications