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Issues : Cautionary accidentals

b. 8-24

composition: Op. 64 No 3, Waltz in A♭ major

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In the main text we omit the cautionary  next to d2 in bar 8, present in the sources. Chopin probably feared that b1 at the beginning of the bar may trigger an association with d2. Similarly in bar 24, which in A is marked as a repetition of bar 8. 

category imprint: Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Last key signature sign

b. 8-16

composition: Op. 64 No 1, Waltz in D♭ major

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We add a cautionary  next to g2 in bar 8 and 16. One of them was written by Chopin himself in bar 8 in AI, while both signs were added by the revisers of GE and EEW1 (→EEW2).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 9

composition: Op. 29, Impromptu in A♭ major

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Before the last c3 in the R.H. in A there is a natural written by someone else. The sign was printed in GE1 and deleted in GE2 (→GE3→GE4). FE and EE are lacking it.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: GE revisions , Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Cautionary accidentals

b. 9

composition: WN 17, Polonaise in B♭ major

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In JC and EF, there is a  before the last a1. This unjustified in this context sign is not included in PE. Similarly in bar 36.

category imprint: Source & stylistic information

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 9

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

No accidental in CLI & Ap

 before a1 in FE (→GE,EE) 
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Chopin added a cautionary  before a1 still in the handwritten base text for FE (→GE,EE). In the situation in which the opening phrase of the Etude appears already for the third time, written from a new line of the text, the sign seems to be superfluous.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals