mUltimate Chopin

Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description

Issues : Authentic corrections of FE

b. 33

composition: Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

sotto voce in FE (→EEW)

No markings in GE
..

The absence of this indication in GE, unless it is an oversight by the engraver, may suggest that is was added by Chopin in the last stage of proofreading FE1.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 36

composition: Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

 in FE (→EE)

No mark in GE
..

The missing mordent in GE is probably an oversight by the engraver, although it cannot be ruled out that the mark was added in FE1 only just in the last stage of proofreading.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 57

composition: Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

g-c1-e in FE (→EEW)

No c1 in GE
..

The missing c1 notes in GE is probably an oversight by the engraver of FE, repeated after the proof copy of FE1, in the finished FE1 corrected by Chopin in the last stage of proofreading. Such a mistake is much more likely when reading a Chopinesque autograph than a printed version – cf., e.g. the Etude in G, Op. 10 No. 5, bar 15, the Etude in E, Op. 10 No. 11, bar 43 or the Concerto in F minor, Op. 21, II mov., bar 41.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in GE , Authentic corrections of FE , Uncertain notes on ledger lines

b. 65-66

composition: Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

Shorter slur in FE1, literal reading

Longer slur in FE2 (→EEW) & GE
..

The fact that the slur was not continued after the transition to a new line in FE1 is almost certainly an oversight, corrected – probably by Chopin – in FE2 (→EEW). The mistake was also noticed and corrected in GE.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE , Uncertain slur continuation

b. 72

composition: Op. 63 No. 3, Mazurka in C# minor

g-c1-e1 in FE1 (→GE)

g-c1-g1 in FE2 (→EEW)
..

The change of e1 to g1 in the chord on the 2nd beat of the bar, introduced in the stage of proofreading FE2 (→EEW), bears traces of a Chopinesque improvement – it eliminates the parallel resolution of a doubled leading e1-e2 note to f1-f2 in the next bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE