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b. 135

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

We add cautionary before e¹ in RH. Similar addition was made in EE.

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b. 135

composition: Op. 43, Tarantella

In A there is no before the fifth quaver c¹ in LH.

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b. 135

composition: Op. 38, Ballade in F major

f²-f³ in A, FE1 & GC (contextual interpretation) and FE2 (→FE3) & GE

f²-f³ in EE

In A, the third and fourth chords in the R.H. contain patent mistakes: there is no accidental before the third one, which results in a f² simultaneously with f³, whereas before the fourth one Chopin wrote a before the lowest note and a lowering e³ to e³, which also results in a f² simultaneously with f³. The sharp before the 4th chord, unnecessary in the current configuration, confirms the assumption resulting from a comparison with analogous bar 110 that Chopin meant f²-f³ in the third chord and f²-f³ in the fourth one. This version, without errors, is present in FE2 (→FE3), corrected by Chopin. In all sources based directly on A, the following inauthentic corrections were performed:

in GC, the copyist added a necessary before the topmost note of the 4th chord (f³) while omitting the before e³. In GE, the text was revised to the correct version of FE2;
in FE1, the before the lowest note of the 4th chord was omitted, which, however, did not influence the correctness of the notation, which still contained two mistakes;
in EE, a was added before the top note of the 3rd chord, which resulted in a harmonically reasonable version, yet certainly inauthentic in the face of the Chopinesque proofreading of FE2.