FE
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. 42

g-c1-e1 in As & A (→FEEE,GE1no2,GE1opGE2opGE3op)

g-e1 in AI & GE2no2

On the photographs of A available to us, it is impossible to state whether on the 2nd and 3rd beats of the bar there are cnotes or not. We assume, in accordance with the editions, that the notes are visible in this place, however, on the basis of analysis of all twelve analogous bars, we consider the version with triads to be most probably erroneous. The following scenarios are possible: 

  • accidental merging of note stems with ledger lines, looking like notes;
  • Chopin's erroneous introduction of the original version from the draft;
  • omission of the correction of the original version in A (in analogous bar 58 one can see deletions-corrections of respective crotchets in A) and FE.

Similarly in bars 106 and 170.

Compare the passage in the sources »

See b. 34

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE, Uncertain notes on ledger lines

notation: Pitch

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