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Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

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Issues : Authentic corrections of FE

b. 25-26

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Triads in CLI & Ap

Sixths in FE (→GE,EE) 
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The additional c3 notes, visible in CLI and Ap at the beginning of these bars in the lower voice, were deleted by Chopin in FEcor. In FE in bar 25 a  was left before the empty space after the deleted note, which the reviser of GE moved before f3.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Accompaniment changes , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 25-26

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Two  signs in Ap

 in FE (→GE)

Accent in EE2, interpretation

Two accents in EE3 (→EE4), interpretation
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The  hairpins added in one of the later proofreadings of FE (→GE) should be, according to us, interpreted as diminuendo (in pair with the  sign in the previous bar). However, it must be said that FE also reproduces a few unequivocal long accents in a similar way. This is exactly how the sign was understood in EE and, moreover, in EE3 (→EE4) a similar accent was arbitrarily added in analogous place in bar 26.
Ap has  in both bars, while in bar 25 the sign is put clearly earlier than in FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

b. 25-28

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Wedges & dots in Ap

Dots in FEcor

Dot in FE (→GE,EE) 
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In the main text we give three staccato dots, at the beginning of bars 25-27, written by Chopin in FEcor. In finished FE (→GE,EE) only the dot in bar 26 was printed. Ap displays a richer set of staccato markings.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE , Wedges

b. 27

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

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In CLI and FEcor there are no accidentals before the fourth in the lower voice, which is certainly a mistake.
CLI and FE (→GE1→GE2→GE4,→EE) have an unnecessary  before b2 in this place.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE , Errors of CLI

b. 27

composition: Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

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In one of the last proofreadings of FE the A-a octave was preceded with naturals, which are highly unjustified here. The signs were probably added – by Chopin or perhaps by the reviser who worked with him – together with the necessary  returning a2 on the 12th semiquaver; it is possible that this is the fact that influenced the person introducing the corrections. The naturals are not included in the manuscripts, they were also removed from GE4 (→GE5). 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE