As
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
compare
  b. 31-32

 in A

No sign in FE (→EE,GE1op,GE1no2)

 in GE2op (→GE3op) & GE2no2

Our variant suggestion

It is uncertain whether Chopin considered the  sign written in A to be valid or not. The hairpin is absent in FE, yet it does not seem that it was deleted – it is rather an oversight of the engraver. On the other hand, in analogous bars 159-160 both A and the editions include a contrary sign, , so that one can ponder whether Chopin could have committed a mistake by writing here . Taking into account the above observations, in the main text we leave the inclusion of  at the discretion of the performer.

The  sign in later GE was certainly added on the basis of comparison with the reprise.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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