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Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
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. 200-208

No marks in A (→FE→EE)

Long accents in bars 200-201 in FC

Short accents in bars 200-201 in GE1

Short accents in GE2 (→GE3)

Long accents suggested by editors

Differently than in analogous b. 68-77, Chopin did not write any accents in b. 200-201 & 208-209 in A; he could have considered the marks written for the first time to be sufficient. However, while proofreading FC he added accents in b. 200-201, which confirms their validity also in this appearance of the theme. Due to the above reason, in the main text we also add a mark in b. 208 (and 209). Accents were also added in GE2 (→GE3). In GE all marks in those bars are common, short accents.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in GE, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw