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Op. 2, Variations, complete

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Issues : Cautionary accidentals

b. 3

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In the main text we add cautionary flats to b and b1. The former was also added in GE2 (→GE3,FESB).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 35-36

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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Although the "nonchalant" chromatic notation of A – at least 4 accidentals in the R.H. are missing as well as 7 in the L.H. – does not lead to any textual doubts, it requires to be completed, which was already performed, to a certain extent, in the first editions. Taking into account the manner (different from ours) in the case of the R.H. part on the 4th beat of b. 35, the accidentals on the top stave were already ordered in GE1, including the addition of a cautionary  to d1 at the beginning of b. 35 and removal of the unnecessarily repeated  to b1 at the beginning of the 2nd half of b. 36. However, the notation of the L.H. part can be considered complete only in FESB and EE (different in both). In the main text we add R.H accidentals on the 4th beat of b. 35; it was also performed in GE3. See also the note at the beginning of the 2nd half of b. 36.

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

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , Corrections in A , Cautionary accidentals , Inaccuracies in A

b. 48

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In the main text we add a cautionary  to c3 and omit the unnecessarily repeated  to b2, the penultimate semiquaver in the 1st half of the bar. We do not include the  to f3 either, the penultimate semiquaver in the bar, added in GE (→FE,EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 87

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In the main text we add a cautionary  to e2. In AsI Chopin wrote a  to e1 in the L.H. part.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign

b. 108

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

e2 in AsI, A (→GE→FE,FESB) & EE2 (→EE3)

e2 in EE1 (→EE2)
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Contrary to the situation in b. 103, in A (→GE→FESB) there is no cautionary  to e2. A flat was added in FE, perhaps at Chopin's request, whereas in EE1 a  was inserted here, raising e2 to e2. This version, possible in itself, must be erroneous, which is proven by – aside from the compliant version of the remaining sources – the comparison with analogous b. 104, 120 and 124. This erroneous revision (or maybe simply a mistake) was corrected only just in EE3, where the  was changed to a .

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in EE , Cautionary accidentals , FE revisions