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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

b. 466-469

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No mark in EE

 in GC (→GE)

FE
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In the main text we present slightly longer hairpins of FE (cf. the mark in bars 450-453). No  in EE must result from omission.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE

b. 495

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Short accent in EE & GC (→GE)

Long accent in FE
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Long accent in FE seems to harmonize better with the phrase's character. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

b. 518-520

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

 in EE and FE

No sign in GC (→GE)

Our variant suggestion
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The  hairpins in GC (→GE) may have been overlooked, but it cannot be ruled out that it is an authentic dynamic avriant. Therefore, we propose a variant soulution - bracketed hairpins.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of GC

b. 530-533

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No marks in EE and FE

Three dots in GC

Two dots in GE

Our suggestion
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The LH crotchets are marked with staccato dots only in GC, at the same time b. 531 was overlooked, which in this context must be seen as omission. In GE there is no mark in b. 530.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Inaccuracies in GC

b. 567

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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A comma-like mark in GC, which here should be read as a wedge, was not - maybe by chance - included in GE. Neither EE nor FE have any mark in this place. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Wedges