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Op. 64 No 1, Waltz in D♭ major

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Main text
As - Autograph sketch
AI - Autograph I
AII - Autograph Caraman
AIII - Autograph Rothschild
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
GE1Db - First German edition of Waltz No 1
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2Db - Second German edition of Waltz No 1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2op
GE3Db - Third German edition of Waltz No 1
GE4Db - Revised impression of GE3Db
EE - English edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of WaW1
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Ostinato quavers in AI, AIII & A (→FE→GE,EE)

End of trill & quavers in AII

Same as the four-bar introduction, also the eight-bar link before the reprise was materialised only at the stage of presentation autographs. Its second part, after the trill, features the most original, as it seems, form in AII. If the chronology of the autographs proposed on the basis of comparison of the texts is correct, it would imply Chopin's hesitation.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations

notation: Pitch

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