Issues : EE revisions

b. 7

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

Small quavers in A (→FE,FCGE1)

Small semiquavers in EE & GE2 (→GE3)

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Although the revisers of EE and GE2 used semiquavers in the group of small notes probably after analogous b. 25, Chopin wrote those notes as semiquavers also in the discussed bar – see the adjacent note. It cannot be ruled out that the change of semiquavers to quavers resulted from distraction at the time of copying this bar. Therefore, the version with semiquavers may be considered an acceptable variant of notation (actually, both versions indicate the same performance).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 10-16

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

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EE1 has no  signs in the middle of bar 10 and at the end of bars 15-16. These are probably oversights by the engraver. Only the first one was corrected in EE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in EE

b. 14

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

Accent in A (→FCGE) & EE2

No mark in FE (→EE1)

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The missing accent in FE (→EE1) is most probably an oversight of the engraver. The mark was added in EE2, probably on the basis of a comparison with GE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE

b. 16

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

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FE (→EE1) omitted the dot prolonging the crotchet b1. The error was corrected in EE2, the remaining sources also have the correct text.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Errors repeated in EE

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