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Issues : Accompaniment changes

b. 195

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Earlier version in AsI

Added version in AsI

Remaining sources
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There are two versions in AsI – the earlier one, written in normal-sized notes, which we consider to be the text of this source, and the later one, marked with additional small notes. This second version, almost identical to the one added in AsI in bar 179, can be considered a first attempt at the final version appearing in other sources. The notation of the second version is not univocal:

  • The presence of the note c2 in the 2nd semiquaver of the lower voice is not clearly indicated. We assume that the intended voice leading on the 2nd quaver of the bar corresponds to the final version.
  • We add the tie sustaining the grace note b1 following the more precise notation in bar 179.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes , Main-line changes , Corrections of AI

b. 198

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Tied quaver e1 in AsI, contextual interpretation

Crotchet e1 in A & GE2 (→GE3,FESB)

Quaver e1 in GE1 (→EE)

Quaver & demisemiquaver e1 in FE

Completed FE version suggested by the editors
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As with b. 182, in the main text we give the version with e1 repeated at the end of the bar, introduced in the stage of proofreading FE. At the same time, we do not accept the fact that the e1 crotchet played in the middle of the bar should be shortened (to a quaver) – it is probably a mistake or revision by GE1 (→FE,EE), which was corrected by GE2 (→GE3,FESB). However, we add a dot extending the a1 semiquaver, since we are convinced that its absence in FE resulted from inaccurate or simplified proofreading.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions , Accompaniment changes , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 198

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

G in AsI

F in Af &A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)

F in GE3
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As in b. 182, in the main text, based on the undoubtedly later version of Af and A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB), we add a cautionary  to the 8th demisemiquaver, F. The accidental was also added by GE3.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: GE revisions , Accompaniment changes

b. 199

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A one can see that the last two crotchets were initially d1-g1-b1 chords, out of which Chopin eventually removed the d1 notes (he introduced an analogous correction into b. 99 only just while proofreading FE).

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Deletions in A , Accompaniment changes

b. 202-204

composition: Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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In A we can see the deleted initial version of the first two chords in the bottom L.H. voice, i.e. g-b-c1.

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A , Deletions in A , Accompaniment changes