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  b. 59-71

In bars 59, 63, 67 (R.H.) and 71 (L.H.) in A there are traces of deleting the dot extending the crotchet on the 2nd beat of the bar and the quaver flag at the last note of the bar. However, the spatial arrangement  of those notes within the bar shows that the initial version of the rhythm was just like the final version – 2 quavers and 2 crotchets. It seems that in the course of his work on A Chopin twice changed his mind about the rhythm in those bars:

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category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A, Chopin's hesitations, Main-line changes

notation: Rhythm

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