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Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Issues : Inaccuracies in GC

b. 336-343

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

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Slur endings in bars 339 and 343 are innacurately notated in GC as the slurs extend over to the rests on the second beat of the bar.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: 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. 344-347

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Slur in EE

Slur in GC, literal reading

Slur in GC (interpretation) and GE

Slur in FE
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE , Inaccuracies in GC , 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

b. 350

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

e1 in EE and FE

d1 in GC (→GE)
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In GC the middle note of the last chord is notated inaccurately - even though it looks more like d1 (and it was read accordingly in GE), but it cannot be ruled out that the copyist meant to notate e1 based on the following:  

  • e1 in both EE and FE;
  • notating this note higher than clear d1 in the previous chord;  
  • Gutmann's tendency to write notes too low on the line - such inaccuracy appears in his copy three times more often than an opposite situation when a note below the line (or between the lines) is written too high. On the same page of GC we see examples of notes written too low (g) in bars 342 and 345.

Therefore, in the main text we present e1.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GC