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AI - Working autograph
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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The bottom note of the 2nd semiquaver is written in AI as e, while before the bottom note of the next semiquaver there is no  returning e. In the context of a more precise notation of the later sources, the lack of  must be considered as a mistake, in spite of the fact that from the purely harmonic point of view, the version with the repeated e would not be entirely impossible (although rather not in the stylistics of young Chopin, who showed a clear preference for diminished four-note chords). In A one can see traces of change of this e to f. Cf. the Prelude in C minor, Op. 45, bar 79

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Enharmonic corrections

notation: Pitch

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