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Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

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Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 4-5

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

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In the main text we include the fingering entered most probably by Chopin into FES. In addition to digits, there is also a mark implying that the e1 note should be performed by the R.H., which the notation of FE completely ignores, since the note was moved to the bottom stave. An analogous hint, in the form of an additional quaver flag pointing upwards, is also in FEJ. In the main text, in which we keep the original division of the text between the staves, we do not include those annotations, since they are superfluous.
See the previous note. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 4

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

Fingering digit written into FEJ

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEJ

b. 12-13

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

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we include the fingering written by Chopin into FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 12

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

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In the main text we give a  raising f1 to f1 after A (→FC→GE). The accidental is absent in FE, which can almost certainly be attributed to the distraction of the engraver of FE, who forgot to insert a  in the place between the notes left especially for this purpose. Chopin added a  in FED; it was also added in EE. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED

b. 45-47

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

One-part notation in A (→FE,FC→GE)

One-part notation & in bar 47 fingering in EE

Additional beam in bar 47 in FES

Contextual interpretation of annotation in FES

Our suggestion in bars 45 & 47
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The quaver beam added in FES to the last three quavers most probably indicates that they should be performed by the R.H. Since it concerns fingering, in the main text we also give it in analogous b. 45 (cf. General Editorial Principles, p. 17). In b. 45 it is convenient to perform this motif with the R.H. already from the 2nd quaver, e. The fingering of EE contradicts both indications in FES, i.e. here and in a similar phrase in b. 49. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES