mUltimate Chopin

Op. 2, Variations, complete

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
EE1
Main text
AsI - Working autograph of score
A - Autograph fair copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE3 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FESB - Later French edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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in A

 cresc. in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)

The shorter  hairpin in the editions must have been an arbitrary decision of the engraver; upon seeing a cresc. within a mark, he considered that doubling synonymous indications would be a problematic yet unnecessary complication to the notation.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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