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Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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Issues : FE revisions

b. 62-64

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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The issue whether the accidentals to the small notes apply to the normal-sized notes was not clearly stated in Chopin's time, as it turns out. In GE and FE there is no accidental before the bottom note of the L.H. chord on the 3rd beat in b. 62 and 63, d, which, at least theoretically, can be misleading. Naturals were only added in EE – in EE1 in b. 63 and in EE2 in b. 62.

FE2 added a not so justified cautionary  before d2 in b. 63. The accidental is also present in EE which added yet other cautionary naturals – before d2 in b. 62 and 64 as well as d1 in b. 63-64.

In the main text we include only the naturals before d in b. 62-63.
Naturals in those places were also being added in the analogous b. 295-297.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in FE , FE revisions

b. 69

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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Due to the lowermost ledger line having been overlooked, the bottom note of the L.H. crotchet looks like G1 in FE1. The mistake was corrected both in FE2 and EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , FE revisions

b. 91

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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In FE1 (→EE1) the 1st note in the 2nd L.H. demisemiquaver group is a d. The patent mistake was rectified in FE2 and EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

b. 97

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

c(1) in GE, FE2 & EE

c(1) in FE1
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The missing naturals lowering c and c1 to c and c1 in b. 97 in FE1 must be a mistake, committed probably by Chopin. It is indicated by the lack of planned space for naturals in GE1, which means that they were most probably absent in [A]; they could have been added in printing. The mistake was corrected in FE2 and EE. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Omission of current key accidentals , FE revisions

b. 100

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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The g note instead of a in FE1 (→EE1) must be a mistake of the engraver, corrected in subsequent impressions of both editions.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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