Issues : Errors in GE

b. 7-8

composition: Op. 64 No 3, Waltz in A♭ major

Hairpins in A

FE (→EE), GE2op (→GE3op) & GE2Ab

No signs in GE1op & GE1Ab

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The  hairpin is shifted in FE – contrary to A – to the beginning of the bar. In the editors opinion, this is due to inaccuracy. In GE1op and GE1Ab both  and  signs were overlooked in these bars, what later versions of GE supplemented.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Scope of dynamic hairpins , Errors in GE

b. 10-11

composition: Op. 64 No 3, Waltz in A♭ major

 in A (→FEEE)

No sign in GE

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The absence of the  hairpin is certainly an oversight of the engraver of GE. The hairpin was overlooked in GE1op and GE1Ab in the entire line, embracing bars 6-11.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE

b. 13

composition: Op. 64 No 3, Waltz in A♭ major

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GE1Ab has undoubtedly an erroneous b-boctave as the 3rd crotchet. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , Terzverschreibung error

b. 15

composition: Op. 64 No 3, Waltz in A♭ major

Slur from a1 in A, GE2op (→GE3op) & GE2Ab.

Slur from g2 in FE (→EE)

No 2nd slur in GE1op & GE1Ab

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The moment of the division of the slur – after the 3rd or the 4th quaver of the bar – is not completely clearly marked in A. The interpretation of FE (→EE) is graphically less likely and at the same time pianistically less natural, therefore, in the main text we choose the first, definitely more likely possibility. Such slurs are given in GE, yet in GE1op and GE1Ab there is no second slur (until bar 22), which is undoubtedly a mistake. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Inaccurate slurs in A , Errors in GE

b. 16-22

composition: Op. 64 No 3, Waltz in A♭ major

Slurs in A, literal reading (→FEEE)

Slur in A (contextual interpretation), GE2op (→GE3op) & GE2Ab

No slurs in GE1op & GE1Ab

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Due to the applied abbreviated notation of bars 17-31, it is not entirely certain how the slurs of A at the transition between bars 16 and 17 are to be interpreted. According to us, it is more likely that Chopin though about a continuous slur, which is indicated by the fact of combining slurs in A in analogous bars 124-125 (a respective change was introduced in later GE). Omission of the slur in GE1op and GE1Ab is a patent mistake.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A , Errors in GE , GE revisions