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. 35-37

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Wedges in A (→GE→FE,EE)

No marks in FESB
..

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FESB

b. 36

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Crotchet g in AsI & A

No note in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)
..

The missing g crotchet on the 4th beat of the bar must be an oversight of the engraver of GE (→FE,EE). This note is a pianistically and sonically natural bridge between the preceding octave sequence and g in the chord at the beginning of the next bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE

b. 36

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

..

In the 2nd half of the bar, which in our transcriptions falls between the lines, we repeat the accidentals, unnecessary in undivided bars and therefore absent in the sources. This procedure does not influence the interpretation of the text; we reproduce the literal notation of the sources in the graphic transcription.

category imprint: Editorial revisions

b. 37-38

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

c, c-c1, d-d1 & C-c1 in AsI, contextual interpretation

C-c, C-c, D-d & C-c in A (→GE→EE,FESB)

C-c, C-c, d & c in FE
..

The AsI version corresponds closely to the orchestra part. In the version prepared for printing, Chopin moved these bars an octave lower, presumably to preserve the ascending sequence of these orchestral interludes. While proofreading FE1 this fragment was modified once again by removing the octave doublings of two bass notes, D at the end of b. 37 and C at the beginning of b. 38. We include this undoubtedly Chopin's correction in the main text.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE , Bass register changes

b. 37

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

..

In the main text we add a cautionary  to b. It was also added in GE3.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions