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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description

Issues : Errors of GC

b. 591

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

c3-g3 in EE, FE & GE2

 c3-e3 in GC (→GE1) 
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The c3-e3 third in GC (→GE1) is musically correct, however, c3-g3 in EE and FE seems more justifed pianistically and thus may suggest the copyist's error. And the unjustified  before the upper note of the dyed - before e3 - must certainly be  an error. It was rightly corrected in GE2, perhaps when compared with FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Terzverschreibung error , GE revisions , Errors of GC

b. 595

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In GC there are no rests in LH, which was corrected in GE.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions , Errors of GC

b. 621

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

D-E in EE

G1-C in GC (→GE) & FE
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In EE the first two quavers - D-E - judging by the identical notation of the other sources are erroneously written. It needs to be said as well that there is an error in the notation of the second quaver of the bar in GC that may mislead a reader as it is E written out with a ledger line.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE , Errors of GC

b. 632-634

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Pedalling in EE

No markings in GC (→GE)

Pedalling in FE

Our suggestion
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None of the sources provides correct pedalling in these bars. No  in EE (b. 632) and FE (b. 634) may only slightly mislead the performer as in both sources the moment of releasing (changing) pedals is marked with  (accordingly in bars 633 and 635). In GC (→GE) there is no pedalling until the end of the piece, which most certainly can be classified as the copyist's omission (in two last lines of the text 259-266 i 548-553). 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , No pedal release mark , Errors of GC

b. 635-636

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Pedalling in GC (→GE) must have been omitted.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC