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Issues : Cautionary accidentals

b. 7

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

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The cautionary  before f1 was added in FE (→GE,EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 7

composition: Op. 22, Polonaise

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The cautionary  before b in the last R.H. chord, present in the majority of the sources and poorly justified, was removed only in EE2. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 7

composition: Op. 28 No. 6, Prelude in B minor

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The sources feature a  before g1, as in the previous bar. It is not necessary here, and we omit it in the main text.

category imprint: Editorial revisions; Source & stylistic information

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 7

composition: Op. 28 No. 9, Prelude in E major

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All sources feature a  (cautionary?) before e1. In the main text we omit that unjustified accidental.

category imprint: Editorial revisions; Source & stylistic information

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 8

composition: Op. 29, Impromptu in A♭ major

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We add a cautionary flat next to b2. The sign was added by someone else in A and printed in GE.
It is the first out of several signs added in A by GE's engraver or reviser. The additions are of random character – they were introduced only in the 1st, 5th and 6th page of the notation. A part of additions (e.g. the flat in the described bar) are cautionary signs justified with the musical narration, however some of them are either unnecessary (e.g. in bar 104) or grossly erroneous (bars 103 and 106).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations

issues: Foreign hand additions in manuscripts , Cautionary accidentals