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Issues : Authentic corrections of EE

b. 82-83

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt III

Accent on G in GC (→GE) & FE

Four accents in EE

Our variant suggestion
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Same as in bars 28-29, three accents under F, D and B1 were probably added by Chopin in the base text to EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of EE

b. 88-92

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

No slur in GC (→GE) & FE

Slur from 2nd beat in EE

Slur from first beat suggested by the editors
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The proposal of the main text refers to the slurring of GC (→GE), appearing most often in analogous phrases. The version of EE may be considered to be an equal variant.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Authentic corrections of EE

b. 92-95

composition: Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

One slur in FEG (literal reading→GE1)

One slur in FEG (interpretation) & EE

No slur in FE

Two slurs in GE2 (→GE3)
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Chopin added a slur in those bars to FEG, it is also present in EE. Although a fragment of the slur visible on the available photograph reaches only the bar line after bar 94 (on this basis GE1 ends the slur on the last quaver of this bar), the shape of the line nevertheless suggests a continuation into bar 95. In GE2 (→GE3) the slur was prolonged up to bar 95, but also arbitrarily divided into two parts in bar 92. FE does not have any slur in this passage.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of GE , Authentic corrections of EE

b. 96

composition: Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

No accent in FE & GE

Accent in EE

Our variant suggestion
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The accent mark was probably added by Chopin in the base text to EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of EE

b. 96-100

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

Slur from 1. beat in GC (→GE)

No slur in FE

Two slurs in EE

Interpretation of EE suggested by the editors
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The division of the slur of EE into two parts is most probably related to the graphical layout used in this edition, in which, from the 2nd beat of bar 98, the part of the R.H. is written entirely on the top stave. The slur, in turn, concerns above all the melodic progression, in bars 99-100 performed already by the R.H.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of EE