The b
1 note on the 5th quaver in the bottom voice (our main text) is written in A and confirmed in parts of oboes and clarinets in Morch. GE1 most probably has erroneous c2 here, which, in the proofreading of FE (→EE), was replaced with an e1-c2 sixth. It is very likely that the proofreading was introduced by Chopin himself; however, it does not prove that he wanted to change the version written in ½A in this way – it could have been an ad hoc correction of the erroneous version of GE1. In this situation, we consider the less pianistically convenient version of FE, in which the consistent harmonic sequence in ½A (cf. the previous bar) was distorted, to be only a variant.
category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: Errors in GE, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Pitch