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b. 1

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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The GE1 and GE2 copies were provided with two types of covers – some gave no information that the piece was intended for piano with orchestra (the phrase "avec accompagnement d'orchestre" was removed). The title page of GE3 explicitly informs us that it is a piece for one piano ("pour le piano seul"). The titles of the remaining editions do not contain a mention of the orchestral accompaniment, although in the case of FE1 (→FE2) one can guess that it is included due to the given prices of the orchestral material (in a full version and in a version reduced to string quartet).
In our transcriptions of GE1 and GE2 we take into account the copies providing a complete description, in accordance with A. Where only the piano is mentioned, the relevant part of the title is omitted from our transcriptions – see General Editorial Principlesp. 14.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions

b. 18-28

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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The second halves of bars 18-23 and 28 (as well as 30) are written in AsI in an abridged manner as a repetition of the first ones.

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 33-34

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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The bottom notes of the L.H. octaves were not written out in the sources; they were marked with the use of the con 8va indication. In AsI the octave doubling of the bass line is not indicated at all, which may be only a shorthand notation, because also in the solo part at the beginning of bar 35 there is only A, and it seems unlikely that Chopin started the octave progression with a single note.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Bass register changes , Abbreviated octaves' notation

b. 45-52

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Abbreviated octaves' notation

b. 79

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No repetition in AsI & GE (→FE,EE,FESB)

Repeat in A

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It is difficult to assume that the removal of the repeat sign for b. 79-95 was not consulted with Chopin. However, the issue is generally obscure, since A is the only source in which the repeat sign was marked – it is absent both in AsI and in the orchestral material GEorch (→FEorch). Therefore, if the repeat signs are not a mistake, at some point Chopin considered expanding the Theme by 16 bars to eventually, after having sent A to the publisher, return to the initial concept. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Authentic corrections of GE , Changed phrase length