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Op. 2, Variations, complete

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Issues : Omission of current key accidentals

b. 30

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

g3 repeated in AsI, contextual interpretation

g3 tied in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)
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According to the editors, the lack of a tie to g3 in #ApI may just be Chopin's oversight (the missing before this crotchet is definitely an error).

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omission of current key accidentals

b. 59-61

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omission of current key accidentals , Errors of A , Errors repeated in GE , Errors repeated in FE , Errors repeated in EE

b. 62

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

Semiquavers in AsI, contextual interpretation

Crotchet & demisemiquavers in A (→GE→FE,EE,FESB)
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Omission of current key accidentals , Rhythmic errors

b. 80-84

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In the sources there are no naturals specifying the sound of the top note of the mordents. However, the phrase is clearly kept in the key of F major, which is indicated by the arrangement of the individual chords within the four-bar section. The fact that it is also here that Chopin heard the key of F major and not of B major is proven by the e2 notes present in the figuration in b. 112-113 (116-117), particularly in the melody by the end of b. 188. Omission of accidentals specifying the sound of secondary mordent, trill or grupetto notes was rather a rule than an exception in the Chopinesque notation. 

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Omission of current key accidentals

b. 137-138

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

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In AsI the accidentals restoring c1 and b at the end of b. 137 are missing; the  raising e1 to e1 in b. 138 is absent too. A similar situation occurs in the L.H. part, which is marked in an abridged manner as doubling in unison the R.H. part. In A and the editions the notation is correct.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Omission of current key accidentals