GE3
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Atut - Autograph of first Tutti
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEFo - Forest copy
FEH - Hartmann copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2a - Altered impression of GE2
GE3 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 281-282

FE (→EE,GE1GE2)

GE3

The position of ritenuto in FE (→EE,GE1GE2), 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

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa