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Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

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Issues : Omissions to cancel alteration

b. 1-5

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

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In bars 1 and 5 in CLI there are no naturals returning a1, d2 and f2. The signs were also originally absent in FEcor (→FE,EE), in which Chopin added all of them. A correct notation is featured in Ap too. Similarly as in all subsequent repetitions of this bar (bars 9, 13, 36 and 40). 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 2-6

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

No  in CLI

Naturals in Ap & FE (→GE,EE) 
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Lack of the  returning b2 on the penultimate semiquaver in bars 2 and 6 is most probably an inaccuracy of the notation of CLI. In bar 2 Chopin added the sign in FEcor, in bar 6 – probably already in the handwritten base text for FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 4

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

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In CLI and EE2 the  returning d1 on the 4th beat of the bar was deleted, which is a patent error. In CLI there is a superfluous  before g1 in this chord, which shows that Chopin did not include in the notation the previous alterations in this bar at all. Similarly in bar 12. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE , Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors of CLI

b. 7

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

E-minor in CLI (interpretation) & Ap

E-minor in FE (→EE2→EE3)

E-major in GE1

E-major in GE2 (→GE3→GE4→GE5) & EE4
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On the 2nd beat of the bar in the R.H. we give the E minor triad (with a  before g2) according to FE (→EE2→EE3) and Ap. The natural is, however, absent in FEcor and it was also not included in the copy which served as the base text for GE. In order to avoid the mode discrepancy between the parts of both hands, the reviser of GE1 took the decision to add a  raising g1 into g1 in the L.H. In GE2 and subsequent ones, an additional  was added before g2 in the R.H. These arbitrary changes were also introduced in EE4. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in FE , Omissions to cancel alteration , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 7

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

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In Ap there is no  returning a2 at the 9th semiquaver of the bar. It must have been Chopin's oversight. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors of A