The g-c1-e1 chord on the 2nd beat of bars 28 and 36 is the initial version – it is already present in FCs. Chopin removed g in bar 28 while proofreading FE1 or earlier, while revising [FC], while in bar 36 – while proofreading FE2. The reason could have been to avoid parallel octaves with the melodic voice (in bar 28 latent, while in bar 36 real). We are dealing with a somewhat similar situation in the autograph of the Ballade in A
, Op. 47 – in three analogous places we can probably see three stages of introducing a change consisting of the removal of the fifth of the dominant seventh chord (d) in one of the accompanying voices, in bar 56 the note is already absent, in bar 60 it is deleted, in bar 107 it remained undeleted. EE1 repeated the fully corrected FE2 version, while EE2 returned to the initial three-note chord in bar 28, probably under the influence of GE1.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: EE revisions, Accompaniment changes, Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Pitch
