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b. 336

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No mark in sources

Staccato dot suggested by the editors
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In the main text we add a staccato dot, since the missing staccato in this place is most probably an inaccuracy – Chopin indicated short articulation in all three analogous b. 344, 438 & 446.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 336-351

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

No markings in A (→FC→GE)

Staccato dot in FE (→EE)

Slurs suggested by the editors
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We consider the missing slurs in b. 336, 344 & 351 to be an inaccuracy of notation. In analogous b. 438, 446 & 453 A features slurs in the first and third of them, whereas differentiating between the performance of such similar accompanying figures seems to be unjustified.

The staccato dot in b. 351 in FE (→EE) must be a mistake. 

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 336

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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We add a cautionary  before c1 in the main text. The accidental was also added in FESB.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: FE revisions

b. 336

composition: (Op. 4), Sonata in C minor, Mvt IV

Minim c in A, literal reading

Dotted minim in GE (→FE,EE,IE)

Minim & rest suggested by the editors
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The GE version (→FE,EE,IE) is a misguided attempt at complementing the R.H. bottom voice. Formally speaking, the notation of this bar is unfinished in A, since the 3rd crotchet in the bottom voice was left incomplete, which, however, is not uncommon in Chopin's notation – cf., e.g. bars 355-357 – and would sometimes lead to misunderstandings and mistakes (cf., e.g. the Variations in B, Op. 2, bars 16-32). In the discussed place, nothing indicates that Chopin would have wanted to prolong the c minim. In order to avoid any doubts, in the main text we add a rest here.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Inaccuracies in A

b. 337

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In EE, GC and FE1 there is no  augmenting a2 to
a2. This obvious inaccuracy must have been already present in the autograph (such inaccurate notation is quite common in Chopin's autographs). The accidental was added in GE and FE2, which must have been done by the revisors. Compare b. 345.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC