Issues : GE revisions

b. 112

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

No marks in GE1 & FE (→EE)

L.H. staccato dots in GE2

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The staccato dots added in GE2 under three L.H. quavers are an arbitrary revision of the publisher. The absence of a respective addition under the last quaver in the preceding bar is not accidental, since in this entire section (to b. 124) dots were added only in every other bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 113-126

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

No L.H. slurs in GE1 & FE (→EE)

L.H. slurs in GE2

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As before, the L.H. slurs are an arbitrary addition of the revision of GE2 (essentially right yet dispensable).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 113-124

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

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In comparison with b. 83-102, the staccato dots are less carefully marked here (there are many omissions). Unlike there, it concerns GE to a greater extent; however, it does not seem that the differences between the sources and analogous places were something more than mere inaccuracies of notation. Taking into account the above, in the main text we provide all R.H. quavers and semiquavers with dots (except the octaves beginning the bars).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

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

b. 114-124

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

No L.H. marks in GE1 & FE (→EE)

L.H. staccato dots in GE2

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The staccato dots under the L.H. quavers are an arbitrary addition of the engraver of GE2. This time – unlike in b. 87-100 – the procedure was limited to the groups of three quavers at the end of the bars with even numbers (apart from that a dot was added only on the 2nd beat of b. 117).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 131-139

composition: Op. 44, Polonaise in F♯ minor

7 staccato dots in GE1

1 dot in FE (→EE)

4 dots in GE2

9 dots suggested by the editors

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We give the staccato dots under the bass notes after GE1, in which they are absent only in b. 135-136. According to us, it makes it possible for us to consider (with as high probability as possible) that Chopin's intention was to mark all those notes with dots. The clearly defective version of FE (→EE) probably resulted from the accumulation of the oversights by the engraver of FE1 with the earlier ones, in the handwritten basis for that edition. The omission of the marks in b. 137-139 in GE2 seems to be a revision. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

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