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Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 157-158

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

No slur in A (→FE→GE1op,GE1no2,EEC,EEW1)

Slur in GE2op (→GE3op), GE2no2 & EEW2

Our variant suggestion
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While writing this place in A for the second time, Chopin overlooked the slur over the part of the L.H. (cf. bars 29-30). According to us, it can be considered an inaccuracy, hence in the main text we suggest to complete the slur. A similar addition was performed in later GE and EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 158

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

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GE2no2 overlooked the pedalling in this bar, perhaps in order to unify this bar with bar 30.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 162

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

g-e1 in A, GE2op (→GE3op) & GE2no2

g-c1-e1 in FE (→EE,GE1op,GE1no2)
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The chords on the 2nd and 3rd beats of the bar in FE (→EE,GE1op,GE1no2) is most probably a mistake – see bar 34. The introduction of sixths in later GE is certainly a revision unifying bars 34, 98 and 162, in this case, according to us, giving the correct result.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , GE revisions

b. 168-184

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

No accidental in A (→FE→EEC) – f2

 in bar 40 in AI – f2

 in GE & EEW1 (→EEW2) – f2
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Due to the doubts concerning the sound of the last quaver in bars 168 and 184 – it is not entirely certain whether and which of the versions was considered by Chopin to be the final one – we give all possibilities appearing in the sources, in spite of the fact that the version with f2 is present explicitly only in AI, in which after bar 128 there is no return to the first section of the Waltz anymore.

In the main text we adopt an interpretation of A compatible with the valid norm, specifying it with a cautionary . 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 168

composition: Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

Pedalling in A, EEC, EEW2, GE2op (→GE3op) & #GE3no2

No markings in FE (→GE1op,GE1no2,EEW1)
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The absence of pedalling in this bar is undoubtedly a mistake of the engraver of FE (→GE1op,GE1no2,EEW1). At the last appearance of this section, more mistakes in reproduction of the pedalling were committed in FE, which may be related to the necessity of working on two pages of the manuscript at the same time (cf. bars 173-174 and 188).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , GE revisions