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Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

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b. 55

composition: Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

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Chopin initially wrote G as the 4th semiquaver in A, which he then crossed out and replaced with B1.

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A , Deletions in A , Accompaniment changes

b. 56-57

composition: Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 56-57

composition: Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

Slurs in A, probable reading

Slurs in FC (→GE)

Slurs in FE

Slur & tie in EE
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The slurring of FC (→GE) is one of a few distinct inaccuracies of the copyist, and yet difficult to explain – cf. b. 27-28, 38-39 or 58. In A the slur starting in b. 57 is a tenuto-slur, according to us, and this is how we reproduce it in the main text. At the same time, we include the ambiguous curved line of A at the beginning of b. 58; the shape thereof resembles a tie, but it is placed at the height of a slur. In FE the curved line was not prolonged beyond the a1 crotchet, whereas in EE, due to a routine shift of the mark to the side of noteheads, it became a tie.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors of FC , Tenuto slurs

b. 58

composition: Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

Slur from 2nd quaver in A (→FE→EE)

Slur in FC (→GE)
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As with the previous bars, Fontana moved the slur – contrary to A – towards the beginning of the bar, as a result of which it encompasses this very bar, which was picked up by GE. In this case, it is difficult to conclude whether it was an inaccuracy or a misinterpretation of the slur of A.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FC

b. 59-72

composition: Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

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In each of b. 59-60 and 62-63 the L.H. part is marked in A (→FC) with a •/•, which implies that the preceding bar should be repeated. The abridged notation was used in the manuscripts also in the remaining bars – to mark the 2nd half of the bar in b. 61 and 65-72 and the 1st one in b. 64. Similar notation was also used in FE by marking the 2nd half of the bar with a / in b. 59-63 and 65-72.

category imprint: Differences between sources