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Op. 30 No. 1, Mazurka in C minor

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Issues : EE revisions

b. 1

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

Quatre Ma­zurkas in FC (→GE) & FE

Souvenir de la Pologne... in EE

4 Mazurkas suggested by the editors
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In all sources the number of mazurkas in the opus is expressed in full word – Quatre Mazurkas, yet in the main text we provide a digit, understandable regardless of the language. What is more, it cannot be excluded that in the autograph (lost) Chopin wrote a digit, as he did in the preserved autographs of opuses 24 and 50, which the French publisher did not respect in opus 24, replacing the digit with a word.

In FC the title contains a mistake – Quatre Mazurka. The title having been expanded in EE was an arbitrary decision of the publisher – all opuses of Chopinesque Mazurkas were named like that.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Errors of FC

b. 44

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

b in FC (→GE) & FE

b in EE
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The version featuring b resulted from a mistake or inaccuracy by Chopin in [A] – the  to the 1st third was written there in such a way that both Fontana and the engraver of FE put it before d1, where it has no purpose. It must have been b, which, however, was noticed only in EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Accidental below/above the note , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE