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Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

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b. 2-10

composition: Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

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In bars 2 and 10 we add cautionary flats before a. The addition was already performed in GE2 and later GE,s and in EE4.

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b. 3-4

composition: Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

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Bar 3 in A (→FE→GE1→GE2→GE3) repeats the  from the 1st half of the bar before g in the 2nd half of it. The  before f in the 2nd half of bar 4 is similarly repeated. The unnecessary signs were removed in GE4 (→GE5). In analogous bars 11-12 and 43-44 the signs do not appear in any of the sources.  

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issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 4-13

composition: Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

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We add cautionary flats before e1 in bars 4 and 12 and e in bars 5 and 13. First three were already added in GE and EE4.

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issues: EE revisions , GE revisions

b. 6-14

composition: Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

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At the beginning of bars 6 and 14 we add a cautionary  before g1.

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b. 7

composition: Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

c1 in A (→FE→EE2→EE3)

c1 in GE & EE4
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In the main text we give c1 after A (→FE→EE2→EE3). A similar harmonic progression is often to be found in Chopin's works, e.g., in the Etude in E major, No. 11, bars 23-25, therefore, there is no reason to suspect that Chopin overlooked a  in this place. However, in GE (and EE4) a  was added before this c1, changing it into c1. Completing the missing accidentals was the basis of revision in GE, yet Chopin's intention was not always correctly identified (cf., e.g., the Etude in C major, No. 1, bar 46, A minor, No. 2, bar 7, A major, No. 10, bars 23 and 35). A similar change of c1 into c1 was performed in the ending of the Nocturne in B minor, Op. 9 No. 1, published a little bit earlier in the same publishing house (the 11th quaver in bar 83); the change, being an obvious mistake, shows the schematic approach of the edition's reviser.

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issues: EE revisions , GE revisions