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Op. 45, Prelude in C♯ minor

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GE1 - First German edition
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EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 18

No accidentals (d) in FE1

 d in FE2

lowering D to D and d1 to d1 in FEJ

Three  D in GE & EE

FE1 does not have a single accidental in this entire bar, which means that the diminished chord d-f-a is the harmonic basis. This is how it was understood in FE2, adding a cautionary  before the 1st quaver of the L.H. Chopin's corrections in FEJ and the error-free version of GE show that Chopin's intention here was to have a D major chord as the harmonic basis. The reviser of EE added the relevant naturals here too. Cf. a further note for this bar. 

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issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Errors in FE, Annotations in FEJ, FE revisions

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