b. 244-248
Both performance variants of the grace note in bar 244 and 248 are most probably authentic – in similar contexts Chopin used both tied grace notes (e.g. analogous bar 77 and 81 and 164 and 168) and repeated grace notes (e.g. Allegro de concert, Op. 46, bar 213 or Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61, bar 61). On the other hand, we cannot rule out an oversight of the ties in A and them having been added as 'obvious' by Fontana to [FC]. In the main text we give the version with tied grace notes, in the belief that the correction to [FC] or at the stage of proofreading of FE1 was introduced by Chopin himself, correcting his inaccuracy from A or foregoing the differentiation of this detail between the particular appearances of this theme.
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category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Ornaments