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b. 135-136
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In the main text we suggest adding a slur after the authentic solo part slurs. Cf. also the L.H. slurs in the version for one piano in b. 136-137 and 137-138. The slur added in EE3 was modelled on the L.H. slur of the solo part, inaccurately reproduced by EE1 (→EE2). category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions issues: EE revisions |
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b. 135-136
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In EE the L.H. slur is poorly imprinted, as a result of which it ends abruptly under the last demisemiquaver in b. 135. The shape of the slur clearly reveals that the shorter slur was neither intended nor erroneous – it was supposed to end over the wedge under the 1st demisemiquaver in b. 136; however, due to a printing defect, one can see only its left half. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: EE inaccuracies |
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b. 135
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In A (→GE→FE,FESB), the note on the ways to use the alternative L.H. part is in French, whereby in FE it was shortened by one word, perhaps due to typographic reasons. In the main text we provide its Polish and English versions. The note is absent in AsI, as are the other performance markings. category imprint: Editorial revisions issues: EE revisions |
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b. 135-139
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In AsI the alternative L.H. part (harmonic accompaniment) is not written out in these bars – Chopin started writing it only just from b. 140. Due to b. 136-141 having been written down with a repeat sign in AsI, the alternative part is also absent in b. 144-147. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Incomplete sources |
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b. 135
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In the entire Var. II AsI does not contain any performance markings except a metronome tempo. Moreover, there are two options – The shorter tempo/character indication in FE probably comes from Chopin*, who could have marked it in the basis for FE. However, as the issue is uncertain, in the main text we keep the generally synonymous marking of A (→GE→EE,FESB). * Four years after writing this somehow pedagogical remark "ma accuratamente," Chopin could have considered it childish and certainly inappropriate. What is more, the letter in which he describes that it was only thanks to the conductor that "he was not able to play at breakneck speed" his Concerto in E minor in October 1830 allows us to assume that the real addressee of "ma accuratamente" could have been teenage Chopin himself. Therefore, it would be all the more understandable that in 1833 Chopin, conquering Paris as a pianist and composer of five works with orchestra, not to mention Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Etudes or the Trio, decided to remove this indication, evidence of his unbridled youthful temper, although it was impossible to guess its origins – if our assumptions are actually true. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Metronome tempos , Changes of tempo markings |
= 76 (with pen, most probably earlier) and