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A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
EE - English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of [EE2]
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 55

No accidentals in A (→FEEE)

Flats in GE

The version without flats, featured in A (→FEEE), is perfectly correct from the musical point of view. In spite of this, it is almost certain that Chopin forgot to return a1-ahere; as a result, it is the version of GE that is compliant with his intention. It is revealed by the comparison with the prototype of this phrase in bar 15, in which the sound of a1-a2 was unequivocally confirmed by Chopin. 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration, Errors of A

notation: Pitch

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