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Op. 30 No. 1, Mazurka in C minor

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Issues : GE 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. 9

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

No accidental in FC & FE (→EE)

 to c2 in GE
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The cautionary  added in pencil to FC comes from the reviser of GE1, hence we do not include it in the text of the copy. The mark was taken into account only by GE.
The same in bar 45.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts

b. 28-30

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

  in FC

No signs in FE (→EE)

  in GE
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Chopin added the   hairpins in FC, as was the case with the majority of the remaining dynamic marks in this Mazurka. GE partially adjusted the range of the marks to full bars, which in this case was justified to a certain extent, due to the transition to a new page starting from bar 29.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins , GE revisions , Authentic corrections 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