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Op. 28 No. 24, Prelude in D minor

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Issues : Annotations in FES

b. 35

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

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we include the fingering entered most probably by Chopin into FES. It is noteworthy that it differs from the one indicated in FED in an analogous passage in b. 17.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Differences in fingering , Annotations in FES

b. 36-37

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

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we include the fingering written down by the pupil and coming most probably from Chopin.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 38

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

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we give the fingering entered into FES, which most probably comes from Chopin.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 42

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

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In FE the 2nd semiquaver in both figures is an erroneous c note, whereas in EE – most probably as a result of revision of this clearly false version – e. The version of EE, although possible in terms of harmony, is pianistically improbable. In turn, the pencilled correction of c to A written in FES, compliant with the version of A (→FC→GE), may come from Chopin.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Terzverschreibung error , Annotations in FES

b. 50

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

No marking in A (→FC→GE, →FE→EE)

Long accent in FES, possible interpretation
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The pencilled addition in FES, big but vague, could be a  mark or – which, according to us, is much more likely – a long accent. The best candidate for an accent seems to be the dotted b1-b2 quaver; however, due to the above interpretation being surrounded by uncertainties, we do not suggest it in the main text.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES