mUltimate Chopin

Op. 2, Variations, complete

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Issues : Accompaniment changes

b. 115

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Quavers in AsI

Crotchet in A (→GE→FE,EE)
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Accompaniment changes , Main-line changes , Corrections of AI

b. 126

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

e1-a1 in AsI

e1-a1 after AsI

a1-c2 in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)

a1-c2 after A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)
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The version of AsI is the initial version of this place. In the final one, Chopin raised the position of the 2nd and 3rd L.H. quavers and simplified the excessively precise rhythmic notation of the 2nd half of the bar in which both notes have the value of semiquavers complemented with rests.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes

b. 127

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

4-note chords in AsI

4-note chord after AsI

Octave in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)

Octaves after A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)
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The full B major chord on the 1st L.H. quaver present in AsI was replaced by Chopin with an octave in both volte (in the final version Chopin abandoned the repetition of b. 112-127, but in A the 1st volta encompassing b. 127 is written out and deleted in such a way that it can be deciphered).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Accompaniment changes

b. 135

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

2nd quaver without f2 in AsI & FE

Chord with f2 in A (→GE→EE,FESB)
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The version without f2, introduced – most probably by Chopin – at the stage of proofreading FE, is also a version that was entered into AsI, in which the note was also removed (deleted, like f in the L.H. on the same quaver). Therefore, if the correction to AsI preceded the preparation of A, we are dealing with Chopin's hesitation, who changed his mind on the presence of this note three times. Another possibility would be the initial version having been erroneously entered into A.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Accompaniment changes , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 136

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Triad in A (→GE→EE,FESB)

Sixth in FE
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In the main text we give the proofread – almost certainly by Chopin – version of FE, with a "lighter" sixth instead of a three-note chord. A similar situation is in b. 144 and 160.
In AsI the alternative version of the L.H. was not written out in this bar – see b. 135-139.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Accompaniment changes , Authentic corrections of FE