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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Issues : Errors in FE

b. 139-140

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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 FE erroneously has D sharp1 as the lower note in both bars. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Errors in FE , Terzverschreibung error

b. 150

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Missing in FE1 are the ending of the tie sustaining E flat and   lowering E1 to E flat1. Those obvious mistakes were corrected in FE2.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Errors in FE

b. 175

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

g2 in EE, GC (→GE) & FE2

b2 in FE1
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FE1 erroneously has b flat2 as the last note, which was corrected in FE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

b. 196

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

No sign in EE & FE

 in GC (→GE)
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The asterisk  is only present on GC (→GE). Its absence in the remajning sources is doubtless due to oversight, probably on the part of Chopin himself. Cf. bar. 240.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE

b. 201-207

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

cresc. in GC (→GE)

cresc. in EE

 

cresc. - - - in FE
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In EE and FE the indication cresc. was placed under the hairpin mark . This is probably the revision introduced by editors, who could fear that the authentic notation (i.e. cresc. within the hairpin) preserved in GC and GE would prove illegible in print. Moreover, in FE the scope of the cresc. is delimited with dashes stretching until the end of bar 207, which seems to be a misunderstanding (cf. bar 211). As our main text we reproduce the authentic notation of GC (→GE), so characteristic of Chopin.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , FE revisions