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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. 33

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: 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. 43-44

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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As in b. 35-36 and 39-40, in the manuscripts Chopin overlooked some of the necessary accidentals, in this case only flats. AsI lacks a  to the 14th semiquaver in b. 43 (g2) and to the 10th semiquaver in b. 44 (g), and A lacks a  to the 14th semiquaver in b. 43 (g2) and flats to the 8th and 20th semiquavers in b. 44 (g1 and g). All omitted accidentals were already added in GE1, which was repeated in the remaining editions. In the main text, we omit the unnecessary repetition.
In the AsI notation, attention is drawn to the unnecessary repetitions of flats before g3 in bar 43 (as in A) and g1 in bar 44, as well as 3 flats (cautionary?) before e3 in bar 43 and e2 and RH. e in bar 44.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Accidentals in different octaves , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign , 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,FESB).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals