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Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

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b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

Staccato dot in A (→FC)

No mark in FE (→EE) & GE
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In the main text we include the staccato dot placed in A quite high above the 1st quaver; perhaps this is the reason it was overlooked in FE (→EE). On the basis of the preserved photograph, it is difficult to conclude whether the dot was copied in FC. According to us, it is likely that it is between the ledger lines, poorly legible due to the beam in b. 41, visible through the other page.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in GE

b. 13

composition: Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

Staccato dot in A

No mark in remaining sources
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In the main text we include the staccato dot written in A and omitted – almost certainly due to an oversight of the copyist and the engraver of FE – in all the remaining sources. See also b. 17.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors of FC

b. 17

composition: Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

Staccato dot in A

No mark in remaining sources
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As was the case in b. 13, in the main text we include the staccato dot written in A and omitted in all the remaining sources.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors of FC

b. 38

composition: Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

Accent in A (→FE,FC→GE)

No mark in EE
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The omission of the accent is undoubtedly an oversight by the engraver of EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE

b. 39

composition: Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

Wedge in A (→FE)

Staccato dot in FC (→GE)

No mark in EE
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In A the staccato mark under the 1st quaver is in the form of a wedge, and this is how we give it in the main text. In FC (→GE) Fontana must have assumed that the top part of the mark was an unintentional trace of a pen, which cannot be ruled out completely, although such defects in the notation of dots are very rare in Chopin's autographs – cf., e.g. dots in the Prelude in G Minor No. 12: out of 79 staccato marks, 77 are dots (only R.H. marks in b. 65 and 73 should rather be regarded as wedges), among which only two in b. 9 are not round or punctual.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE , Wedges