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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. 31

in As

in AI

in A (→FE→GE,EE)

Three versions of this bar show that Chopin from the very beginning had a general vision of shaping the melodic line –  – and that he tried to fill the framework with different motivic cells, as, e.g., the f-g progression or a pair of repeated notes. The latter appears only in AI and A, probably in relation to eliminating it from the melody in previous bar 30. 

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