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Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
EE
Main text
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
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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Octave in A

No G1 in FE (→GE)

No G1 in EE

Our variant suggestion

It is unclear whether the lack of the bottom note of the octave (G1) in FE (→GE,EE) is a result of the engraver's inaccuracy or Chopin's intervention. The fingering (the 1st finger changed to the 3rd one), which is justified only with an octave being struck, yet it can also be used on a single note (in EE it was changed to the one matching the version without the bottom note), does not help to solve this issue. We trust more the version of A, therefore, in the main text we depend chiefly on it.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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