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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. 544

No indication in A (→FC→GE)

sempre  in FE (→EE)

Our variant suggestion

There is no doubt that it was Chopin that added the indication sempre  in FE. To the main text we adopt a slightly differently formulated indication added by Chopin in FC (sempre con fuoco), hence we give the indication added in FE, although the latest, in the form of a variant addition.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Verbal indications

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Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw