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Op. 64 No 2, Waltz in C♯ minor

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b. 1-32

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

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In the previous autographs – As and AI – there are no dynamic signs. We do not record this fact in further, detailed notes on this group of signs. See the note on the tempo indication.

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b. 1-32

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

No indication in As & AI

in A (→FE→GE,EE)
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In the previous autographs – As and AI – there is no tempo indication or any other interpretative indications apart from slurs. We do not record this absence in further notes on dynamic hairpins, verbal indications or pedalling.

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b. 1-2

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

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In AI, in which there is no upbeat, the slur begins from the first sixth.
Generally, the slurring of AI is fragmentary – beside a few single slurs, it embraces only bars 1-8 and 17-25 and 65-96. Due to this fact, we do not consider the absence of slurs throughout longer sections to be variants and we do not discuss it in detail, since it does not convey any message concerning the performance.

In As the slurs appear only occasionally, in bars 10, 32 and 89, and it is only there where we mention the slurring of the draft.

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b. 1

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

in AI

in A

in FE

in GE

in EEC

in EEW1 (→EEW2)
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The dedication, both in A and in FE (→EEW1→EEW2), determines the same person – baroness Charlotte de Rothschild, Nathaniel's wife. In the main text, we give an expression used in FE, being the official way of presenting a married woman in France. It is unclear why the dedication was left out in GE and EEC – in spite of a collective cover for three (in EEC two) Waltzes, it could have been placed, e.g., on the first page of the note text. In the case of GE, the reason could have been a possible absence of cover in the proof copy of FE, being the basis for GE, since the dedication was placed in FE only on the cover.

As does not include either the title or the dedication. The dedication is also absent in AI, although it is known that the autograph was offered to baroness de Rothschild.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions , Dedications , GE revisions

b. 2

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

a-c1 in As (literal reading)

a-c1 in As (probable interpretation)

a-c1-d1 in AI (literal reading)

a-c1-d1 in AI (contextual interpretation)

d-a-c1 in A & FE (→GE,EE)
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In the previous autographs, Chopin tried varied versions of chords in this bar. Eventually, he used the original version only (with an a-c1 third) at the return of this phrase in bar 18. In both previous autographs, it is the absence of a  raising a to a that draws attention. According to us, it is not a harmonic variant, yet an inaccuracy of notation, therefore, we consider a literal interpretation (without ) in these sources only a highly unlikely variant.

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issues: Omission of current key accidentals