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Issues : Errors of GC

b. 179-180

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

 in EE

No sign in GC (→GE)

 in FE

Editors' variant suggestion
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Just like in bars 171-172, both asterisk marks  (in bar 179 and 180) are definitely authentic and in our opinion they may be treated as variants.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC

b. 179-180

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

3 accents in A (→EE)

2 accents in GC (→GE)

No accents in FE
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The omission of an accent over the a-a1 octave in bar 180 in GC (→GE) and FE (FE omitted two previous accents as well) results almost certainly from distraction caused by deletions and corrections in A – Chopin was forced to write the ultimate version of the 2nd half of bar 179 in the margin because there was not enough space over the stave.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors of GC

b. 179-180

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

g2 tied in A (→FE,EE)

g2 repeated in GC (→GE)
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The lack of tie to g2 in GC (→GE) is certainly an oversight of the copyist, provoked presumably by deletions and corrections in A – Gutmann also omitted one of the accents there. Cf. bars 183-184. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC

b. 181

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

No sign in GC (→GE)

Arpeggio sign in FE (→EE)
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No arpeggio in GC (→GE) is most probably an oversight of the copyist.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC

b. 182

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

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In GC and FE (→EE1) the  before the top most note is already before the 1st chord. It is hard to say how the mistake, which had to be already in [A], occurred (corrections?). In addition, in the proofreading of FE4, this obviously erroneous version was confirmed, by adding in this chord a  before c1. It is either a mistake of the engraver or a missed revision. In GE the  was moved before the second chord, in accordance with the musical sense and the version of analogous bar 142; similarly in EE2, in which, however, flats before the extreme notes of the 1st chord were added.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Errors in EE , GE revisions , FE revisions , Errors of GC