Issues : Annotations in teaching copies
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b. 153
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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Both variants were given in the edition edited by Chopin's pupil, Karol Mikuli (Kistner, Leipzig 1879). Mikuli did not specify their origin, but defining the variant with the group of 6 semiquavers as "performance after Chopin" suggests memories and notes from the time of personal contacts between the editor and composer. It is also known that Mikuli had some insight into currently lost pupils' copies of Chopin's other pupils, e.g. Fryderyka Streicher-Müller (cf. the Sonata in B category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Authentic post-publication changes and variants |
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b. 156
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
category imprint: Differences between sources |
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b. 162
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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The rhythm of the 1st beat of the bar, written in FE with a mistake, allows for two natural ways of correcting it – changing semiquavers to demisemiquavers, which was performed in GE, or shortening the first note, like it was corrected in FED. We consider the latter to be more likely, corresponding to the alignment of the notes with respect to the quavers in the L.H. and confirmed by the authority of FED. Apart from the correction of the rhythmic error, the entry in FED changes also the pitch of the 2nd and 3rd notes from b1-a1 to a1-g1. This can be regarded as an alternative version to the printed text (variant); however, according to us, it is also a correction of a mistake. We can only guess how the version of EE came into being; however, nothing proves that it could correspond to Chopin's final intention. In the main text, we give the version of FED, corrected during a lesson with Chopin both rhythmically and melodically. The version is compliant with the unquestionable version of analogous bar 517. category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , GE revisions , Rhythmic errors |
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b. 162
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
category imprint: Differences between sources |
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b. 162
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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The differences in the number and pitch of the notes following the first b1 are discussed in the previous note, together with rhythmic differences. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FED , Authentic post-publication changes and variants |
minor, op. 35, the 1st mov., 
