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FE1

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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b. 26

		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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Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor