GE1
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A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 5

In A there is no accidental before the 1st note in the 4th group of demisemiquavers, which should therefore be interpreted as a1. It is a patent mistake – cf. analog. b. 1 – corrected in FC and FE (→EE). However, there is no natural in GE, which seems unreasonable if we take into account its presence in the Stichvorlage (FC) and a quite detailed revision performed in that edition.
It is tempting to think that the accidental in FC is one of the later additions of H. Scholtz; however, on the preserved photograph, it seems that it was written with a pen, and not in pencil, like the remaining additions. Unlike in analog. b. 1, in which Chopin crossed out the dispensable  before a2, here the  before that note was not crossed out. Next to the oversight of the accidental before a1, it proves that the composer was significantly distracted when writing the 2nd half of that bar. 

We omit the cautionary  before a2 in the main text.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information

issues: Errors in GE, Cautionary accidentals, Errors of A, FE revisions, Fontana's revisions

notation: Pitch

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