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Op. 2, Variations, complete

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Issues : EE revisions

b. 180

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No slur in A (→GE→FE,EE1→EE2)

Slur in EE3

Slur suggested by the editors
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In the main text, we propose adding a slur covering a pair of double stops at the transition of bars 180-181, b-a1 and e1-g1. The slur was also added in EE3.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions

b. 180

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

in A (→GE1→GE2)

 in FE & EE

 in FESB

in GE3
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According to the editors, the  sign in A (→GE1→GE2) is entered imprecisely because it includes a rest during which a crescendo cannot be started. In the main text, we give it a scope analogous to the next such sign. A similar interpretation is used in FE and EE, as well as in FESB, in which, however, the sign is reversed (diminuendo instead of crescendo). It's hard to say whether this was an intentional change or a mistake. On the contrary, in GE3 the sign was slightly extended, which was probably a revision.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Scope of dynamic hairpins , GE revisions , Sign reversal , FE revisions , Revisions in FESB ,

b. 181

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No slur in A (→GE→FE,EE1→EE2)

Slur in EE3

Slur suggested by the editors
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In the main text, we propose adding a slur covering a pair of double stops at the transition of bars 180-181, b-a1 and e1-g1. The slur was also added in EE3.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions

b. 233

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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As before, in the main text we add a cautionary  to g1. In this place, an accidental was also added by EE, along with another  to g2.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions

b. 237

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In GE1 (→FE1,GE2), the  raising b1 to b1 is before the 1st third. Interestingly enough, it is not a common mistake but a wrong revision, since the traces of corrections in print (visible particularly in GE2) reveal that initially the text was printed correctly, with a  before the 3rd semiquaver. In FE2, EE, FESB and GE3, the  was moved to the right place, while in EE another natural was added, a cautionary one to g1 in the 1st third. We include this cautionary accidental also in the main text, hence our text is identical to version of EE.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE , FE revisions , Errors repeated in FE