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Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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Issues : EE revisions

b. 195-200

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

No L.H. slurs in A (→FE→GE)

Slurs in EE
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The slurs added by EE (in the L.H. part) over the d1-c1 motifs in b. 195-196 and the d1-e1 motifs in b. 199-200 were arbitrarily added during the revision of EE, what is more, inconsistently – slurs were not added in b. 201-205.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 198

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

No marks in A (→FE→GE)

Staccato dots in EE
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The missing dots over the L.H. crotchets must be considered Chopin's inadvertence – the marks are present in all the remaining similar situations. Therefore, in the main text we include the dots added by EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions

b. 206

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

Slur in A (→FE→GE1→GE1a,GE2→GE3), contextual interpretation & in EE

No slur in GE4
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In A, the slur that began in the previous bar (at the end of a line) was not continued here. This inaccuracy, so frequent in Chopin's works, was repeated by FE (→GE). We reproduce this incomplete, clearly erroneous version only in the graphic transcription, except for GE4, in which it was also the beginning of this slur in b. 205 that was removed. The ending of the slur was added only by EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: EE revisions , Inaccurate slurs in A , Uncertain slur continuation , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE

b. 207

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A (→FE→GE), there is no  raising f1 to f1. The inaccuracy, typical of Chopin, was corrected only by EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE

b. 217-219

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A (→FE) there are no sharps raising f2(3) to f2(3) in b. 217 and 219. The inaccuracy, typical of Chopin, was corrected by GE and EE. Chopin wrote in A cautionary naturals to a1 in both bars and to a in b. 219; they were repeated by all editions. FE (→GE,EE) also added a  to a1 in b. 217. In the main text we include all these accidentals.
Moreover, GE added in both bars a cautionary  also to a2.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE