FE1
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A - Autograph
FE - French Edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German Edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Second, revised impression of GE2
GE4 - Third impression of GE2
EE - English Edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Later impression of EE1
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  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

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category imprint: Corrections & alterations

issues: Enharmonic corrections

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw