mUltimate Chopin

Op. 28 No. 22, Prelude in G minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Main text
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. 9-10

Slur to end of bar 9 in A (literal reading→FE→EE)

Slur to bar 10 in A (possible contextual interpretation→FC→GE)

The slur of A does not reach b. 10; however, it cannot be ruled out that this is what Chopin's idea looked like – cf. the next two slurs in this phrase. Fontana implemented that possibility in FC (→GE); it even seems that he was prolonging that slur on purpose.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Fontana's revisions

notation: Slurs

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