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b. 314

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Fingering in AsI

Fingering in A (→GE→FE,EE)

Our variant suggestion
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As in the R.H. part, in the main text we include – in brackets – the fingering of AsI, which is an extended version of the one that Chopin wrote in A (→GE→FE,EE).

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b. 314

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In the main text, we add a cautionary  before d1 in the L.H. chord.

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b. 314-315

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Slur to b. 315 in A

Slur to a1 in GE (→FE,EE)
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In the main text we keep the precise slurring of A. The slurs having been separated on the bar line was an arbitrary decision of GE (→FE,EE).

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issues: GE revisions

b. 315

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

2 staccato dots in A

Wedge in GE (→FE)

2 wedges in EE
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In the main text we keep the two staccato dots visible in A over the f notes opening the semiquaver triplets. The fact that the first one was omitted in GE (→FE) most probably resulted from lack of space under the R.H. b semiquaver written on the bottom stave (in EE a wedge was added under this f). The second dot having been replaced by a wedge must have been an arbitrary decision of the engraver of GE1 – see bars 271-272.

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issues: EE revisions , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Wedges

b. 315

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Wedges to 2nd & 3rd octave in AsI

Dot & 2 wedges in A

Wedges to 1st & 3rd octave in GE1 (→GE2)

No marks in FE & EE

3 wedges in GE3
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The three bass octaves are provided with staccato marks in A. Only the first one is a dot, which seems to be Chopin's inadvertence – it is supported by both the next two L.H. wedges and the R.H. wedges in these places. In this case, we consider the unification process carried out by GE to be justified and adopt it to the main text. The omission of the second mark in GE1 (→GE2) must have resulted from lack of space; the wedge was added in GE3. The easiest explanation for the fact that the versions of FE and EE are devoid of marks would be oversights.
The absence of the first staccato mark in AsI almost certainly resulted from an inaccurate nature of this working manuscript, in which performance indications appear only in some fragments (to a varying degree of intensity).

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issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE , Errors in GE , GE revisions