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Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 182

composition: Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

B-d-g in FE0 (→FE,EE,FEG→GE1)

e-g in GE2 (→GE3)
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In analogous bar 10 Chopin changed the B-d-g chords for e-g thirds. He introduced this correction in all three base texts: in FEG (→GE), as well as in the base texts to FE and EE. Lack of respective changes in bar 182 is most probably a result of an oversight – Chopin was known to leave out a correction in one of a few similar places – therefore, also in this bar we give the corrected version with thirds, resulting in a lighter sound. The revisers of GE2 (→GE3) introduced the same change.  

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Omitted correction of an analogous place

b. 196

composition: Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

c2 in FE0 (→FE,EE,FEG→GE)

a1 in GE2 (→GE3)
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At the beginning of the bar FE (→FEG→GE1,EE) has a c2, which is most probably a characteristic error of the engraver (the so-called Terzverschreibung). In analogous bar 24 in all sources there is an a1 note. A respective correction was introduced in GE2 (→GE3).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Terzverschreibung error , GE revisions

b. 217

composition: Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

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In the entire bar FE0 (→FE,FEG) has only two cautionary accidentals: a  lowering g2 to g2 on the 3rd quaver and a  raising a1 to a1 in the L.H. Out of three undoubtedly overlooked signs in the R.H., it is the lack of the  raising a1 to a1 at the beginning of the bar that is most striking; the accidental was added in pencil in FED, it was also added in GE and EE. In both editions a  was added also before the last quaver, yet the fully correct notation is only in GE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals

b. 218-219

composition: Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

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In both bars in FE0 (→FE,FEG) there is not any  lowering g3(2) to g3(2). The flats in bars 217 and 220 prove Chopin's oversights, probably still in [A]. Some of the necessary signs were added in pencil by the composer in FED (both before g3) and in FEJ (at the beginning of bar 219). They were also added in GE and EE (the sign in bar 218 only in GE2 and GE3).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , GE revisions , Omission of current key accidentals , Annotations in FEJ

b. 232-235

composition: Op. 42, Waltz in A♭ major

Slur in FEG

Slur in FE

Slur in EE & GE2 (→GE3)

Slur in GE1
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The range of the slur written by Chopin into FEG is difficult to evaluate on the basis of the available photocopy. The reading in GE1 suggests it might have actually been longer than its today visible part. Taking into consideration the phrase structure and slurring of the analogous phrases in bars 245-260 and 89-103, we deem three out of all source-based slurring justified: FEG, FE and EE (GE2, GE3). In the main text we accept the latter because both the starting and ending points of this slur appear in more than one authentic source: the phrase mark begins from the semiquaver  in FEG and EE, and it reaches bar 235 in FE and EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of GE