The bass f at the beginning of each of these bars is a dotted minim in FE. Formally speaking, it is only the notation in bar 84 that is clearly erroneous, since both f notes, combined by a tie, belong to one voice, which thus includes 9 quavers in this bar. On the other hand, the notation of the bass note in bar 83 is awkward and redundant, yet it can be interpreted as two-part writing – the dotted minim at the beginning of the bar is overlapped by the sound of the crotchet in the 2nd half of the bar belonging to a new voice (Chopin would often add a voice inside a bar without marking the theoretically necessary rests preceding a given note). However, according to us, in both bars we are dealing with a mistake by the FE engraver, who inserted dotted minims as if out of momentum, repeating the notation of bars 81-82 – cf. similar mistakes in bar 56 and 58. In GE it was only the mistake in bar 84 that was corrected, while in EE – only in bar 83.
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issues: EE revisions, Errors in FE, GE revisions, Errors repeated in EE
notation: Rhythm