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Op. 30 No. 1, Mazurka in C minor

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Issues : Errors of FC

b. 43

composition: Op. 30 No. 1, Mazurka in C minor

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The naturals to the L.H. octave on the 2nd beat of the bar are missing in FC – the visible pencilled naturals were added by the reviser of GE1. It is difficult to say whether it is an oversight by Fontana or by Chopin in [A]. All editions contain the correct text.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Errors of FC

b. 45

composition: Op. 30 No. 1, Mazurka in C minor

Staccato dots in FC (→GE)

No marks in FE (→EE)
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According to us, the dots over the L.H. crotchets are a mistake by the copyist, who possibly put the marks over the L.H. in bars 45-46 instead of in bars 46-47. The remaining three times this four-bar section appears (bars 1-4, 9-12 and 37-40), none of the sources include staccato dots in the first bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC