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Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

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b. 253-257

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

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In GC the bars are not written out – see the note in bar 189.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Abbreviated notation of A

b. 253

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

No slur in GC (→GE)

Slur in FE (→EE)
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The missing ending of the slur is certainly an inaccuracy of GC (→GE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 254-256

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

Slurs in GC (→GE) & EE2

No slurs in FE (→EE1)
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The slurs, in bars 66 and 68 added in GC most probably by Chopin, due to the abbreviated notation of the recapitulation, are valid also here, in bars 254 and 256. Same as there, there were reproduced in GE, from which they were adopted in EE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions

b. 257-258

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

Two  signs in GC (→GE)

Two-bar  in FE (→EE)
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One  sign in FE (→EE) is most probably an arbitrary decision of the engraver of FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: FE revisions , Hairpins denoting continuation

b. 259-260

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt II

Pedalling in GC & GE2

No pedal signs in GE1

Pedalling in FE (incomplete)

Pedalling in EE

Our suggestion
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In the main text we give a pedalling based on GC, in which we move the  sign in bar 259, written by the copyist probably one quaver too early, to the 3rd beat of the bar, in accordance with the harmonic sense. According to us, the authenticity of the pedalling of EE cannot be excluded, which, as a result, can be considered to be equivalent. The oversight of the aforementioned  in FE is a patent mistake, however, in the absence of sufficient premises, the place where it should be added cannot be indicated. Moreover, patent oversights of the engravers are the absence of the  sign at the end of bar 260 in FE and the total absence of the pedalling in GE1, which, in GE2 was precisely corrected after GC.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC