mUltimate Chopin

Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Select: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Notation
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Importance
All
Important
Main
Undo Clear

b. 190

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

..

We add a cautionary  before a2 in the main text.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 191

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

No indication in A

ritenuto in FE (→GE,EE)
..

Chopin must have added ritenuto while proofreading FE (→GE,EE). GE used an abbreviation, i.e. riten.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 193

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

e2 in A (→FE→EE,GE1→GE1a,GE2)

d2 in GE3 (→GE4)
..

The change of authentic e2 to d2 performed several dozen years after Chopin's death was an arbitrary decision. It is difficult to say what prompted the reviser of GE3 to introduce it – whether he was convinced (unjustifiably) that it was a G minor chord that was valid as the harmonic basis or whether he was unable to find a comfortable fingering (after all, there are several possibilities).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 193

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

d1 in A

e1 in FE (→GE,EE)
..

According to us, the version of A is a mistake, which is indicated by a comparison with an analogous phrase in b. 93, identical in terms of the intervals used. Anyways, authentic proofreading of FE proves that this version was ultimately rejected.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of A , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 194-198

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

No marks in A (→FE→GE,EE)

Tenuto marks in FED

Our variant suggestion
..

In the main text we include the tenuto marks under the c1 minims in b. 194, 196 and 198, entered probably by Chopin. They are most probably an attenuated version of long accents – cf. b. 8, 10 and analog. Similar dashes are to be found in a copy of the same pupil in the Concerto in E minor, Op. 11, II mov., b. 47 as well.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED