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b. 589-596

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No markings in EE

Pedalling in GC (→GE) & FE
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No pedalling in these bars in EE is most probabbly a trace of the original version of this part.

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 589

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

2 noteheads in FE (→EE)

1 notehead in GE
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Both notations are almost equivalent; however, in exposition Chopin changed the former to the latter, formally less strict yet simpler and thus more explicit, in several dozen bars (see bars 257-263). In the further part of recapitulation, it is also the latter that prevails; hence we consider this place an example of an overlooked proofreading of an analogous place and we include the change introduced in GE in the main text. See also bars 601-603.   

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Omitted correction of an analogous place

b. 589-590

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Long accent in A (→FC,FE)

Short accent in GE1 & EE

in GE2 (→GE3)

 suggested by the editors
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In accordance with the analysis of the Chopinesque  or  marks in this and analogous pairs of bars (see b. 6-7), in the main text we give an averaged, more or less one-bar  hairpin. According to us, all hairpins, regardless of their actual length, are to be interpreted as long accents.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies

b. 590

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

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In FE (→EE,GE1→GE2), there are sharps (cautionary?) before f​​​​​​​ at the beginning of bar 590 and 594. In GE3, the superfluous accidentals were omitted.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign

b. 591

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

c3-g3 in EE, FE & GE2

 c3-e3 in GC (→GE1) 
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The c3-e3 third in GC (→GE1) is musically correct, however, c3-g3 in EE and FE seems more justifed pianistically and thus may suggest the copyist's error. And the unjustified  before the upper note of the dyed - before e3 - must certainly be  an error. It was rightly corrected in GE2, perhaps when compared with FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Terzverschreibung error , GE revisions , Errors of GC