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1 arpeggio sign, our alternative suggestion |
One can ponder whether the missing L.H. arpeggios in b. 568, 570 and 572 were intended by Chopin, particularly since he overlooked a few signs in this entire section, certainly (b. 557) or probably (b. 562 and 564). According to us, an intentional omission is more likely:
- Chopin could have considered them superfluous in the face of a smaller span of the chords;
- a gradual reduction in the number of arpeggios could have been related to diminuendo, which started in b. 567;
- Chopin could have intentionally returned to marking arpeggios in both hands in b. 566 in order to emphasise the difference with respect to b. 568, in which it is only the R.H. chord that is provided with an arpeggio sign.
In this situation, in the main text we preserve the version without arpeggios, present in A and in the majority of the sources; we also suggest a possible alternative version with an arpeggio in b. 568 only. Moreover, we consider it acceptable to perform all chords as arpeggios (as it is in GE2 and GE3), yet only when the corresponding R.H. arpeggios are taken into account.
category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions
issues: GE revisions
notation: Pitch
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