A - Autograph
Main text
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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  b. 73-74

A & c1 in AI

c & c1 in A (→FEGE,EE)

Lack of the  before the 6th semiquaver of the bottom voice in AI means that in both bars it is to be a c1. According to us, one can have doubts whether this version was really intended by Chopin:

  • Chopin would frequently put an accidental next to the subsequent (and not first) appearance of the altered note. In this case the reason could be writing the melodic line with a  before the last note first, so when writing the bottom voice, the composer considered c1 to have been already marked;
  • bar 74 is marked as repetition of bar 73, as a result of which the possible inaccurate notation appears only once.

However, using as the 5th semiquaver in the L.H. is a strong argument for the authenticity of the literally interpreted version of AI.

In A (→FEEE2EE3), there is no  before the last note in the R.H., which is a patent inaccuracy of the notation. In GE1 (→GE1a), the sign was completed in bar 74, while in the remaining editions – in both bars. 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions, Accidentals in different octaves, GE revisions, Omission of current key accidentals

notation: Pitch

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