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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
GC - Gutmann's copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
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  b. 619

Short accent in EE & GC (→GE)

Long accent in FE

For the main text we adopt the FE long accent. Chopin many times emphasised a falling minor semitone motif, e.g. in Polonaise E, Op. 22, b. 119. 

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Kraków