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Issues : Chopin's hesitations

b. 19

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Repeated thirds in #ApI

Repeated thirds in #ApI

Repeated thirds in #ApI

Repeated thirds in #ApI

Single notes in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)

Single notes in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)

Single notes in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)

Single notes in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Main-line changes

b. 20-24

composition: Op. 24 No. 3, Mazurka in A♭ major

Ending of the middle part in AI

Longer ending in A (→GE)

Tied c2 in FE (→EE)
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Compared with AI Chopin made the ending of the middle phrase of the Mazurka in A (→GE→FE→EE) longer by two bars. The composer wavered as regards tying or repeating the first c2. In the main text we take account of a tie to this note added by Chopin while correcting the FE (→EE).

Cf. the comment to the L.H. and the pedalling.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Main-line changes , Changed phrase length

b. 20

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

d-a-c1 in CLI (interpretation)

c-a-b in Ap

d-a-b in FE (→GE,EE) 
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In the sources there are three enharmonically different forms of this chord. Two of them are inaccurately written: in CLI there are no flats lowering d to d and a to a and in FE there is no  lowering d to d (which was corrected both in GE and EE). In the main text we give the notation adopted by Chopin in the version for publication. Cf. bar 22.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Chopin's hesitations , Omission of current key accidentals , Accompaniment changes , Enharmonic corrections

b. 20-22

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Semiquavers in CLI & FE (→GE,EE) 

Crotchets in Ap
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The crotchets in the lower voice in the R.H. present in Ap at the end of bars 20 and 22 – in accordance with the scheme valid in these bars – are additionally underlined with accents. In the autograph the crotchets in these places are also included in the L.H.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Accompaniment changes

b. 21-22

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

c1 in chords in CLI & FE (→GE,EE) 

d1 in Ap
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The octave chords in Ap constitute, as it seems, only a transitional modification of the initial concept of seventh chords. Cf. bars 23-24.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Accompaniment changes