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Op. 29, Impromptu in A♭ major

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p. 3, b. 31-51
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p. 6, b. 92-106
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Lack of natural next to d1 is an obvious Chopin's error. The version with a (without the flat raising to a) is musically possible, yet Chopin's annotation in FES indicates rather a double error of the composer in A and FE. 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, GE revisions, Omission of current key accidentals, Errors of A, Annotations in FES

notation: Pitch