Issues : Errors in GE

b. 179

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

Staccato dots in A (→FEEE)

No marks in GE

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The missing staccato dots for the first two quadruplet crotchets must be a mistake of the engraver of GE, probably related to the placement of these marks, which makes them difficult to convey.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE

b. 179

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

in A (→FEEE,GE1GE1a,GE2) & GE4

No sign in GE3

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It is uncertain how the removal of  by GE3 came about. Anyway, it is a patent mistake, corrected by GE4.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 179

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

in A (→FEEE,GE1GE1a)

No marking in GE2 (→GE3GE4)

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The missing  asterisk is another mistake of GE2 caused by graphic retouches (the first is the distorted slur). The subsequent impressions did not notice the mistake.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , Errors repeated in GE

b. 180

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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GE3 (→GE4) added a digit 3 over the first quaver, as if it constituted a part of the triplet with the next one, as in all subsequent, similar motifs. However, a respective rest is missing; moreover, the notes were not moved with respect to the L.H. part, which points to an unfinished change (intended and arbitrary) or to a mistake of the reviser (which seems more likely).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 195-205

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

No L.H. slurs in A (→FEGE,EE1EE2)

L.H. slurs in EE3

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In the main text we add slurs to the staccato dots with which the pairs of L.H. crotchets are marked in these bars (Chopin wrote such slurs only in the 2nd halves of b. 196, 198 and 200). We provide an extensive justification of this decision in the note concerning b. 9-21. As was the case there, slurs were added here also by EE3 (except for the 2nd half of b. 199).
Isolated cases of adding slurs, probably resulting from the engravers' mistakes, are visible in GE1a in the 2nd half of b. 195, in GE (including in GE1a) in the 2nd half of b. 201 and in FE and all the remaining editions in b. 202. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE , FE revisions