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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Issues : Inaccuracies in FE

b. 267-270

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Pedalling in EE & GC (→GE)

Pedalling in FE

Our variant suggestion
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The pedalling of EE and GC (→GE) is definitely authentic. The pedalling of FE does not raise much doubt either, apart from the placement of the  mark in bar 267, which seems inaccurate (see the note to bar 259). We include the two versions of pedalling, both of them probably authentic, as variants. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE

b. 284-285

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Missing from EE and FE is the bass clef restoring the bass register within the system after the treble clef on the lower stave (the last bar to which the treble clef applies is bar 283). However, the structure of the figuration in bar 286 and its graphic layout make the misreading of the text in this and the following bars practically impossible. In GC, bar 284 opens a new page and the bass clef is written there at the beginning of the line. In GE, the bass clef was added at the end of the line, in bar 284.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , Inaccuracies in GC

b. 337

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In EE, GC and FE1 there is no  augmenting a2 to
a2. This obvious inaccuracy must have been already present in the autograph (such inaccurate notation is quite common in Chopin's autographs). The accidental was added in GE and FE2, which must have been done by the revisors. Compare b. 345.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , FE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC

b. 339

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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There is no bass clef at the end of the bar in EE, GC or FE. Given this consistency of sources we may cpnclude that this error was already present in the two autographs. Since the chords of RH in b. 340 are notated on two staves, lack of the clef does not pose any problems for the text interpetation (in EE and FE b. 340 is printed as the new line of the text with the right clef at the beginning, which minimises the consequences of this omission). The clef was supplemented in GE. We can find similar inaccuracy in b. 347.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , Errors of GC

b. 345

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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In EE, GC and FE there is no  raising a2 to a2. The accidental was added in GE, which must have been done by the reviser. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , Inaccuracies in GC