Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 17

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

No fingering in A (→FE,FCGE)

Fingering in EE

Fingering written into FED

Our variant suggestion

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The fingering digit written in FED most probably comes from Chopin. However, nothing suggests that the different fingering given in EE could have come from him. On the other hand, this is the fingering that was indicated – most probably by Chopin – in FES in a pianistically identical passage in b. 35. Therefore, it seems that the reviser of EE guessed one of the possible Chopinesque fingering versions here. In the main text we suggest a variant solution, including both most probably Chopinesque fingering versions – the one indicated here in FED and in b. 35 in FES.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 27-28

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

Slurs in A (literal reading→FEEE)

Slurs in FC (→GE)

Slurs in FED, possible interpretation

Slur suggested by the editors

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The slurring of A in b. 26-27 is ambiguous – the slur in b. 26 (ending the line), led over the notes, certainly suggests that it should be continued, which is, however, not confirmed by the beginning of b. 27, in which only the initial slur is finished (it was crossed out in b. 26), under the notes. The fact that the ending of the bottom slur was not crossed out and that the top one was not continued proves that Chopin did not control the slurs in b. 27 after having introduced the corrections into b. 26. According to us, the aim of those changes was to combine the new slur in b. 26 with a slur running further, until the end of the phrase in b. 31, in accordance with the unequivocal slurring of an analogous phrase in b. 8-13. Therefore, in the main text we suggest one slur over b. 26-31. It seems that such an interpretation is confirmed by the entry in FED – the mark over the 2nd half of b. 27 may indicate that the slur should be prolonged, i.e. it should start earlier, from the tied dotted b1 quaver (consequently, we obtain a notation equivalent to a continuous slur).
In FE (→EE) the slurs of A were interpreted in the simplest manner possible (yet making sense), which can be considered an acceptable variant. In turn, the slurring of FC (→GE), clearly contrary to A, cannot be authentic.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Inaccurate slurs in A , Errors of FC , Uncertain slur continuation

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