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Issues : Revisions in FESB

b. 91-94

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In the main text we add cautionary flats to e2 in b. 91 and to e1 in b. 94. The latter was also added in FESB.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Revisions in FESB

b. 180

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

in A (→GE1→GE2)

 in FE & EE

 in FESB

in GE3
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According to the editors, the  sign in A (→GE1→GE2) is entered imprecisely because it includes a rest during which a crescendo cannot be started. In the main text, we give it a scope analogous to the next such sign. A similar interpretation is used in FE and EE, as well as in FESB, in which, however, the sign is reversed (diminuendo instead of crescendo). It's hard to say whether this was an intentional change or a mistake. On the contrary, in GE3 the sign was slightly extended, which was probably a revision.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Scope of dynamic hairpins , GE revisions , Sign reversal , FE revisions , Revisions in FESB ,

b. 189

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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The flat restoring B is present only in AsI and FESB.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors of A , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE , Revisions in FESB

b. 192-193

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Slur to E in A & FESB

Slur to D in GE (→FE,EE)
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As in bars 176 and 180, GE (→FE,EE) extended the slur only to the end of the bar, probably in the belief that the notation A was inaccurate. It is difficult to say what caused the subsequent extension of the slur in FESB – inaccuracy or perhaps an analogy with bars 196-197, in which the slur has the correct range in all editions, consistent with A.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Revisions in FESB

b. 251

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Semiquavers in AsI & A (→GE1→GE2,FE)

Dotted rhythms in EE, FESB & GE3
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The version of EE, FESB and GE3 is most probably an arbitrary change performed by the revisers (engravers?), certain that the basis (in this case either GE1 or GE2) contained a mistake.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Revisions in FESB