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Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE0
Main text
FE - French edition
FE0 -
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
GE - German edition
FEG - Chopin's Stichvorlage for GE
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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Crotchet in EE, possible interpretation of FE0 (→FE)

Quaver in GE—another interpretation of FE0 (→FEG)

In FE (→FEG) the 3rd chord in the L.H. is a crotchet, in spite of the fact that it is followed by a quaver rest. This patent error can be interpreted in two ways: 

  • the engraver inserted the rest by mistake instead of the bass clef (see also: the adjacent note);
  • the engraver could have overlooked both the stem of the quaver and the change of the clef.

As the L.H. has crotchets in similar situations in the Waltz, we consider the first possibility to be more plausible. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

issues: Errors in FE, Errors in GE

notation: Rhythm

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