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Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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Issues : Errors in FE

b. 201-202

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Slur d1-b in FE (→EE1)

Tie to b in GE & EE2 (→EE3)
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In FE the tie to b was inaccurately reproduced, as a result of which it looks like a slur meant to combine d1 on the 3rd beat of b. 201 with b in b. 202. This is how it was understood in EE1, in which a slur clearly combines those two notes. The patent mistake was corrected in EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Tie or slur

b. 201-202

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Minim B tied to bar 202 in GE & EE2 (→EE3)

Minim B in FE

Minim d in EE1
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The version of FE must be incomplete, which is supported by a comparison with all analogous places – b. 142-145, 162-165, 203-204 and 221-224. However, it is difficult to say whether it resulted from oversights of FE or of its earlier handwritten basis or whether Chopin supplemented the notation of [A] after [FC] had already been finished. In EE1 that version was reproduced with a Terzverschreibung mistake on the 2nd beat of b. 201. In the main text we give the correct version of GE, undoubtedly intended by Chopin, introduced also by the reviser of EE2 (→EE3).

The missing tie and B in FE (→EE1) are probably an oversight of the engraver, corrected in EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE

b. 217-218

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

Pedalling in GE

in FE (→EE)
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The partial lack of pedal markings in FE (→EE) must have resulted from an oversight, by the engraver or the copyist, or perhaps by Chopin himself if FE were based on the second autograph.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , No pedal release mark

b. 226

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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The missing  raising g1 to g1 in FE (→EE1) must be an oversight, corrected in EE2 (→EE3).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors repeated in EE

b. 279

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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In FE (→EE1) the double grace note before the 3rd crotchet in the bar is A-B, which is a mistake and which results in two identical notes. The error was rectified in EE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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