Issues : Inaccuracies in A
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b. 154
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In A, there is no category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: Accidentals in different octaves , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 154
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In A (→FE), there is no accidental to the last quaver. In this context, it is a patent inaccuracy by Chopin, who would often consider the accidentals defined in the first octave of a scale or passage to be valid in subsequent octaves too (cf. the next bar or, e.g. the Prelude in D minor, Op. 28 No. 24, b. 18). Both GE and EE added a sharp here. category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE |
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b. 155
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In the entire descending passage, there is not a single accidental in A. FE added only a category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE |
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b. 156-157
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In A (→FE), there is no category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources issues: EE revisions , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A , Errors repeated in FE |
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b. 162
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composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor
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In A, the grace note is so close to the f4 quaver that the 8 digit opening the octave sign, although actually placed over f4, encompasses the grace note too. In spite of that, FE (→GE,EE) clearly excluded the grace note from the octave sign, which is, according to us, a mistake, since it constitutes a sonically unjustified complication. Such a problem with a grace note and an octave sign is also to be found in other pieces by Chopin, e.g. in the Sonata in B minor, Op. 58, 4th mov., b. 254 and 258, where it seems that the grace notes are not encompassed with the octave sign in both places, yet the pianistic context (and in b. 254 also the musical context) is an argument for inaccuracy of notation. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Inaccuracies in A |
to the bottom note of the octave. Chopin's patent oversight was corrected by 
3); the fact that it was only the 1st octave of the passage that was proofread may indicate Chopin as the initiator of the procedure. 
1/2/3 in b. 156 and to the L.H. e
