mUltimate Chopin

Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Main text
Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESf - Schiffmacher copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 239-240

No sign in A (→FE→EE)

 in bar 240 in FC (→GE1)

 in bars 239-240 in GE2 (→GE3)

In the main text we give the  mark entered by Chopin into FC (→GE1). In GE2 (→GE3) the mark was extended so that it encompasses two bars (from b. 239) after the authentic  mark in analogous b. 107-108. A similar situation can be found in b. 690-691.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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