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Op. 10 No 6, Etude in E♭ minor

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Issues : Cautionary accidentals

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.  

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 12

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

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In this context the missing  before d must be considered as Chopin's oversight (in the remaining two analogous bars the sign is both in A and the remaining sources).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals

b. 34

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

e1-f1-d1 in A

e1-f1-d1 in FE (→GE1→GE1a→GE2, →EE2→EE3)

e1-f1-d1 in GE3 (→GE4→GE5) & EE4
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Chopin changed the original version (written in A) while proofreading FE (→GE1→GE2, →EE2→EE3). At the time of proofreading, the unnecessary  before e1 in the 2nd half of the bar was left. This may have incited the reviser of GE3 (→GE4→GE5) to change e1 to e1 in the chord at the beginning of the bar (this totally arbitrary version was also repeated in EE4).
We add a cautionary  before f1 on the 2nd semiquaver.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , Cautionary accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 35

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

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A includes two unjustified naturals (cautionary?) before d1 and f1 before the chord in the middle of the bar. In a proofreading of FE (→GE,EE) the bottom accidental was removed.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals

b. 36

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

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A has a cautionary  before a1 and not before d1. The accidental before d1, which is more justified, was added in the last proofreading of FE (→EE), as well as in GE2 and subsequent GE,s. In the main text we omit the first of the aforementioned accidentals. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Cautionary accidentals , Authentic corrections of FE