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Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

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b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

Arpeggio sign in A (→FE→EE)

No marking n FC (→GE)
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Fontana overlooked the arpeggio mark in FC (→GE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

b. 1

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

No fingering in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE

Fingering written into FED

Our suggestion based on FED
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In the main text we include the Chopinesque fingering entered into FED (we omit the 321 digits in the 1st half of b. 2, repeated after an identical figure in the 2nd half of b. 1). The same fingering, marked with a greater number of digits, was added in EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 2-3

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

No fingering in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE
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The fingering of EE cannot come from Chopin; however, it is natural, and it cannot be ruled out that it is consistent with the fingering the composer wanted to provide those figures with.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 2

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

No fingering in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE
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The fingering of EE was added as a result of a revision of the publisher.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 2-10

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

Slurs from grace notes in A (→FC→GE)

Slurs from 2nd crotchet in FE (→EE)
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The slurs in b. 2 and 6 (as well as in b. 18) explicitly encompass already the grace notes introducing the trills. In this situation, we consider the slur in b. 10 to be inaccurate; in the main text we suggest a slur analogous to the remaining ones. The notation of FC is vague – three out of four slurs run rather from the 2nd grace note (only in b. 6 from the first one). As such a notation is musically unjustified, we assume that the copyist meant slurs starting from the 1st grace note in all places, which is how it was interpreted in GE.

As far as the end point of the slurs is concerned, according to us, the notation of A in b. 6 and 10 points rather to boldly written slurs (which were obvious to Chopin) than tenuto-slurs led to the end of the bar (see, however, b. 18).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Inaccurate slurs in A , Inaccuracies in FC , Tenuto slurs