AI
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AI - Working autograph
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 36-40

Same as in bars 32-33, in FES and FEJ there are visible deletions including bars 36-37. In this case, however, it is also the continuation that was deleted, until the end of bar 53 – see the note to bars 41-54. The abbreviation – certainly performed by Chopin – was probably supposed to enable less pianistically proficient pupils an amateur performance of the Etude. The fingering written in FES in bar 39, hence in the deleted bar, was probably written at another occasion (e.g. rewritten from another copy including Chopin indications.

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