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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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b. 620

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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The GC slur extends over to the rest on the second beat of the bar. This was characteristic of a freestyle writing of slurs by Gutmann (and also quite often by Chopin). 

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issues: Inaccuracies in GC

b. 621-622

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Beginning of the slur in EE

Contextual interpretation of GC (→GE)

FE
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The slur in EE erroneously begins only in b. 624. We may suspect that the omission of the slur's beginning until the end of the line mast have occured already in the manuscript for the edition. Also the GC slur may well be inaccurate, so we assume based on GE that the slur is too long and should apply to where the RH comes in. For the main text we adopt the FE slur which seems to be musically most natural. 

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issues: Errors in EE , Inaccuracies in GC

b. 632-633

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Ending of the slur in EE

GC (→GE)
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The slur's ending in EE may be inaccurate, yet pianistically justified.

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