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Op. 50 No. 2, Mazurka in A♭ major

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Issues : Authentic corrections of GE

b. 62

composition: Op. 50 No. 2, Mazurka in A♭ major

No indication in A1 (→FE→EE)

cresc. in GE
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In the main text we include the cresc. marking, which is one of the indications specifying the performance indications introduced in [A2] or perhaps only just in the proofreading of GE1. The latter is indicated by the absence of a respective addition in b. 78, which was probably marked as repetition of b. 62 in [A2], just like in A1 (however, other explanations are also likely, e.g. an oversight of the engraver).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of GE

b. 63

composition: Op. 50 No. 2, Mazurka in A♭ major

No arpeggio signs in A1 (→FE→EE)

Arpeggio signs in GE
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Chopin added the arpeggios in the proofreading of GE1 (→GE2) or wrote them still in [A2]. The same applies to b. 79.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of GE

b. 65-66

composition: Op. 50 No. 2, Mazurka in A♭ major

No markings in A1 (→FE→EE)

cresc. &  in GE
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In the main text we give the cresc. indication in b. 65 and the  mark in b. 66, added by Chopin probably in the proofreading of GE1. The composer replaced with them the accents on the 3rd beat of those bars, present in A1 (→FE→EE). The change shows a version of dynamics with longer breath, closer related to the ascending melodic sequence, as superior to a regular mazurka accentation.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of GE

b. 65-66

composition: Op. 50 No. 2, Mazurka in A♭ major

Short & long accent in A1, literal reading

2 short accents in FE (→EE)

No accents in GE
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The accents on the 3rd beat of these bars were probably removed in the proofreading of GE and replaced by Chopin with the cresc. and  markings (it is indicated by the traces of removal of analogous marks in b. 81-82). Therefore, we do not include them in the main text.
The issue concerning the length of the accents: see b. 60-64.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Long accents , Authentic corrections of GE , Inaccuracies in A

b. 68

composition: Op. 50 No. 2, Mazurka in A♭ major

No mark in A1 (→FE→EE)

Long accent (?) in GE1, literal reading

Long accent on 2nd beat in GE2

Short accent on 3rd beat suggested by the editors
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Just like 7 next accents in b. 69-75, the mark in GE1 was added by Chopin in the proofreading or still in [A2]. Its placement must be inaccurate: there are no doubts that it is the 3rd and not the 2nd beat that is to be accented, yet GE2 understood it the other way round (with accent on the 2nd beat). According to us, the size of the mark is also unreliable (cf. the note in b. 60-64), hence in the main text we give a contextual interpretation thereof.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Authentic corrections of GE