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Chopin hesitated how to mark these bars, particularly 4 g
-g1 octaves and the following chord. It is proven by various sets of markings in particular sources and visible corrections in FC:
- A includes a slur over the last two (three?) octaves and the L.H. chord and a
hairpin under the octaves as well as a pedal from the beginning of b. 540 to the beginning of b. 542. None of those indications was copied in FC; therefore, they could have been – some or all – added in A already after preparation of the copy. - In FC Chopin added 4 accents under the g-g1 octaves, which he then deleted and rewrote, this time over the octaves; an accent was added also over the chord in b. 540. Moreover, there is a visible – eventually deleted –
indication at the beginning of b. 540, which was probably supposed to be the ending of the 12-bar crescendo (which was also added). It is difficult to state the order in which Chopin was adding and removing particular markings, yet, according to us, the following scenario is likely – first crescendo and , then accents for the octaves (written first under and then over them) and eventually replacement of with a fifth accent. - FE printed and
after A, and in the proofreading Chopin also added a 12-bar crescendo ending with (as it was initially in FC).
According to us, the presented state of the sources, even after determining a possible chronology of changes, does not offer an unequivocal answer to the question whether or which version of the markings Chopin considered to be final. We consider the pedalling of A to be independent from the remaining markings and directly introduce it to the main text. As far as the remaining markings are concerned, it is the versions of FC and FE that we consider to be principal; in the main text we adopt the former, since it is contained in the principal source. Due to the fact that the versions can be considered complementary, to a certain extent, we allow the possibility to complement the version of FC with elements of the version of FE. We suggest two sets in which we give some or all elements present in FE as a completion (in brackets) to the indications of FC.
category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: Corrections in A, Chopin's hesitations, Authentic corrections of FC
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
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