Issues : Metronome tempos
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b. 1
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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It draws attention that the change only concerns the nature of this part of the introduction, as the tempo – defined by the metronome – has remained unchanged. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations issues: Metronome tempos , Changes of tempo markings |
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b. 104-109
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In AsI Var. I is written as a draft, without almost any performance markings. In the discussed bars, the exception is the metronome marking provided at the beginning, category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Metronome tempos |
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b. 135
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composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete
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In the entire Var. II AsI does not contain any performance markings except a metronome tempo. Moreover, there are two options – The shorter tempo/character indication in FE probably comes from Chopin*, who could have marked it in the basis for FE. However, as the issue is uncertain, in the main text we keep the generally synonymous marking of A (→GE→EE,FESB). * Four years after writing this somehow pedagogical remark "ma accuratamente," Chopin could have considered it childish and certainly inappropriate. What is more, the letter in which he describes that it was only thanks to the conductor that "he was not able to play at breakneck speed" his Concerto in E minor in October 1830 allows us to assume that the real addressee of "ma accuratamente" could have been teenage Chopin himself. Therefore, it would be all the more understandable that in 1833 Chopin, conquering Paris as a pianist and composer of five works with orchestra, not to mention Nocturnes, Mazurkas, Etudes or the Trio, decided to remove this indication, evidence of his unbridled youthful temper, although it was impossible to guess its origins – if our assumptions are actually true. category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information issues: Metronome tempos , Changes of tempo markings |
=76. We do not comment on the lack of particular markings further on. 
