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Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
AI
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
AI - Autograph Rothschild
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German Edition
GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
GE1no2 - First German edition of Waltz No 2
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2no2 - Second German edition of Waltz No 2
GE3op - Corrected impression of GE2op
EE - English Edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of EEW1
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  b. 69-85

Chords in As

Sixths in AI

b & sixth in A (→FE→GE,EE)

The evolution of the accompaniment in bars 69 and 85 consisted in reducing the number of notes on the 2nd and 3rd beats of the bar – As features two triads, AI two sixths, whereas in A and in the editions, Chopin also omitted the top note in the first sixth.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paryż