A variety of
devices like this would certainly help to give greater finish to
the task."
Doubtless, but consider: man's years are but threescore and ten!
The phrasing of the various editions examined do not vary much.
Riemann is excepted, who has his say in this fashion, at the
beginning:
[Musical score excerpt]
More remarkable still is the diversity of opinion regarding the
first three bass chord groups in the fifteenth bar from the
close: the bottom notes in the Von Bulow and Klindworth editions
are B flat and two A naturals, and in the Riemann, Kullak and
Mikuli editions the notes are two B flats and one A natural. The
former sounds more varied, but we may suppose the latter to be
correct because of Mikuli. Here is the particular bar, as given
by Riemann:
[Musical score excerpt]
Yet this exquisite flight into the blue, this nocturne which
should be played before sundown, excited the astonishment of
Mendelssohn, the perplexed wrath of Moscheles and the contempt of
Rellstab, editor of the "Iris," who wrote in that journal in 1834
of the studies in op.
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