mUltimate Chopin

Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 85

in A

No sign in FC (→GE)

in FE (→EE)

In the main text we reproduce the  hairpin after A, in which the mark most probably emphasizes the ascending secundal d1-e1 step. In FC (→GE) the hairpin was overlooked, whereas in FE extended (it occupies a half of the bar).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Errors of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw