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Op. 50 No. 3, Mazurka in C♯ minor

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Issues : Errors repeated in FE

b. 94-96

composition: Op. 50 No. 3, Mazurka in C♯ minor

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AI and AF (→FE→EE) are lacking in the sharps restoring f2 at the end of b. 94 and f1 at the end of b. 96, as a result of which it is only GE that contain the correct text – cf. b. 2 and 4, which Chopin wrote without mistakes in both Stichvorlage autographs.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 134

composition: Op. 50 No. 3, Mazurka in C♯ minor

G without slur in AF

Rest in GE

G with slur in FE (→EE)
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It is difficult to say which version of the 1st beat of the bar is later and whether Chopin considered any of them to be final. According to us, when the G bass note is played, it distorts the rhythmic scheme of this phrase, in which the accented quaver triplet, which is the local climax, is exposed against the L.H. rest. Chopin could have inserted this crotchet to compensate its absence in the previous bar – cf. b. 9 and 101 – later, however, in [AG] (→GE) he considered keeping the phrase's rhythm to be more important.
A similar issue can also be found in b. 139.

In FE (→EE) this G note is the starting point of a slur, which is a mistake. Moreover, the bass clef was not reintroduced here in AF (→FE→EE), which is Chopin's patent mistake.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors of A , Accompaniment changes , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE