mUltimate Chopin

Op. 2, Variations, complete

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Select: 
Category
All
Graphic ambiguousness
Interpretations within context
Differences between sources
Editorial revisions
Corrections & alterations
Source & stylistic information
Notation
All
Pitch
Rhythm
Slurs
Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
Verbal indications
Pedalling
Fingering
Ornaments
Shorthand & other
Importance
All
Important
Main
Undo Clear

b. 361

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Short accents in A (→GE→FE)

Vertical accents in EE
..

As before (bars 343 and 347 and bar 357), in EE the horizontal accents were arbitrarily changed to vertical ones.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 362

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

4 staccato dots in A

5 wedges in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)

5 dots suggested by the editors
..

The dots having been replaced with wedges was an arbitrary decision of the engraver of GE1 – see bars 271-272. The absence of a dot in A over the penultimate quaver probably resulted from ink stoppage.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Wedges

b. 363-366

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

..

As before (bars 349-352), in A Chopin writes accidentals only to the top notes of the octaves (in the R.H. and in the L.H.). He then considers these accidentals to be valid throughout an entire bar in all octaves of a given stave. All the omitted accidentals – 27 flats to d and g and 2 naturals to e – were already added in GE1 and were repeated in the remaining editions.
In the main text we omit the  to the d3 semiquaver in bar 363, unnecessarily repeated by Chopin. We do not include the  to the next semiquaver, d2, either, added in GE (→FE,EE). 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Inaccuracies in A

b. 363-364

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

..

The slurs were being corrected in A, which is evidenced by the traces of erasures in the R.H. part and by the shape of the first L.H. slur. In the R.H. in bar 363 the first slur encompassed 2 triplets, while the second one started from g2. In the L.H. the slur in bar 363 reached only the last octave in this bar.

category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A

b. 363

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

3 staccato dots in A

2 wedges in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)
..

Replacing the staccato dots with wedges is a revision, while the omission of the mark over d-d1 – a mistake by the engraver of GE1 (in A the dot merges with the  mark).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions , Wedges