Issues : Errors in GE
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b. 45
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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The mark was omitted, probably due to lack of space between the great staves on a inaptly laid-out page in GE1. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in GE |
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b. 47-48
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In all editions, bar 47 is the final one in the line; moreover, the slur that reaches b. 48 was overlooked in it – it is only the ending of that slur that was printed in b. 48 (in FE this fragment was overlooked too). The diligence with which three different editions – EE, FESB and GE3 – reproduced this clearly erroneous notation is truly puzzling. In our transcriptions, due to a different layout, we treat the versions of all editions as not including a slur. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information issues: Errors in GE , Uncertain slur continuation , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE |
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b. 50
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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We reproduce the notation of A, in which the length of the accents regularly decreases, which may suggest, e.g. that they should be each time milder, considering the calando. Such a graphical notation is to be found in a more complex form in the Polonaise in F minor, WN 12, in the autograph of which we can see in b. 79 a sequence of 6 notes marked diminuendo, provided with increasingly shorter accents. In the case of three accents only, it is, however, uncertain whether Chopin indeed wanted to suggest the pianist a certain performance idea; therefore, in the main text we interpret these marks in a standard manner, as long accents (written down inaccurately). This is how they were reproduced by GE1 (→GE2,FE1). The short accents of FESB and the vertical ones of EE are arbitrary changes, while the omission of the marks in GE3 – a mistake. category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Long accents , EE revisions , Inaccuracies in FE , Errors in GE , Inaccuracies in A |
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b. 54
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In the main text we include the slur over the ending of the flute part replica entered into A and most probably overlooked in the editions. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in GE |
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b. 63
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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The missing accent on the e category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in GE |
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1 crotchet is probably an oversight or a different kind of mistake by the engraver of