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Op. 28 No. 1, Prelude in C major

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b. 18-26

composition: Op. 28 No. 1, Prelude in C major

Quintuplets in A (→FC→GE1, →FE→EE)

Triplets in GE2 (→GE3)
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One can only guess what the motivation of the reviser of GE2 was at the time of arbitrarily changing the R.H. rhythm in all bars in which Chopin wrote quintuplets (b. 18-20, 23 and 25-26). After all, there are no doubts that the change, introduced many years after Chopin's death, does not come from the composer.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A , GE revisions , Deletions in A

b. 26

composition: Op. 28 No. 1, Prelude in C major

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Fontana overlooked in FC (→GE1) the beam for the bottom R.H. voice. GE2 corrected the mistake.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Errors of FC

b. 34

composition: Op. 28 No. 1, Prelude in C major

Pause over upper staff in A (→FC→GE)

Two pauses in FE (→EE)
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In the main text we include the revision of FE (→EE), since there are no doubts that the part of the chord falling on the L.H. is supposed to last as long as the one falling on the R.H. Chopin was not consistent in this respect; sometimes he would write one, sometimes two fermatas, which does not influence the performance in similar contexts (cf., e.g. Preludes Nos. 1-3 featuring one fermata, but Nos. 4 and 8 – two). In the main text we keep the notation with one fermata only in the cases when an entire chord is written on one stave, e.g. in the Prelude No. 2 in A Minor.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: FE revisions