b. 17

In A the 1st half of the bar was originally written in the following way:

Then Chopin changed the notation of the 1st and 3rd quavers and deleted the already unnecessary  in front of con the 4th quaver. However, he did not realise that the  and  next to the 5th and 6th quavers are also superfluous. The presence of the unnecessary signs in EE (three) and FE (next to g1) proves that the described enharmonic change was also introduced in the two remaining manuscripts serving as base text for EE and FE.
The deletion before the 7th quaver, which can be seen in A, is also probably an enharmonic correction of that note – originally Chopin wrote there b1

category imprint: Corrections & alterations

issues: Enharmonic corrections

notation: Pitch

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