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WN 55, Waltz in F minor

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b. 5

composition: WN 55, Waltz in F minor

 
 
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The short grace note, varying the melodic line, is present in three autographs (AO, AR, AK) and in F. In the remaining sources, the ornament is absent.

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b. 5

composition: WN 55, Waltz in F minor

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In CC, there is no natural next to b1. It is one of a few mistakes-oversights of this type of the copyist in this source. 

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b. 5

composition: WN 55, Waltz in F minor

 
 
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The marking crescendo in FEF and GEF is most probably inauthentic and comes from Fontana.

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b. 5-12

composition: WN 55, Waltz in F minor

 
 
 
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Generally, in the sources we encounter 3 variants of slurs within bars 5-12:
- two slurs: the 1st to the end of bar 10, whereas the beginning of the 2nd slur from bar 11 in AO, AK, AG (→CY)
- two slurs: the 1st to the end of bar 8, whereas the beginning of the 2nd slur from bar 9 in AR
- one slur in AE (→CX): in the autograph, one can see a binding between two slurs, at the transition between bars 7 and 8.

CC features two slurs written in bars 5-8 only. The first spans bars 5-7, whereas the second - bar 8. It may be a result of such an interpretation of the aforementioned binding of two slurs in AE by the copyist of a base text, unknown to us, of CC (the closest to the notation of AE).

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b. 5

composition: WN 55, Waltz in F minor

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We add a cautionary flat next to b - like in AG (→CY).

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