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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Issues : GE revisions

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. 596

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No mark in EE

 in GC (literal reading)

Long accent in GC (contextual interpretation) & FE

 in GE
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The meaning of the mark in GC in not obvious. At the first glance we have a full bar hairpin , which was interpreted as such by the engraver or revisor of GE and notated above the RH part as diminuendo must have seemed more reeasonable. However, the GC notation implies clearly that the mark does not apply solely to LH but the A1-A octave in particular, which also allows it to be seen as a long accent. FE confirms such interpretetation, where the ocatve is marked with a typical long accent.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , GE revisions

b. 644

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In EE and FE we leave out redundant sharps before e and e1 in the last chord of the bar. The sharps are present in GC (→GE1) but the lower  is erroneously notated on g. In GE2 the accidntal was removed.

category imprint: Editorial revisions; Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Errors of GC