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Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FC
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. 499-500

Chopin overlooked in A (→FC,FE) two indispensable naturals: lowering g2 to g2 in b. 499 and c2 to c2 in b. 500. The former was added in GE1, the latter – in EE. It is only GE2 (→GE3) that contains the correct text.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Accidentals in different octaves, GE revisions, Omission of current key accidentals, Inaccuracies in A, Errors repeated in FE

notation: Pitch

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