mUltimate Chopin

Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
Main text
A - Autograph
GC - Gutmann's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FE3 - Corrected impression of FE2
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 186

c2 in A (→GC,FE,EE)

c2 in GE1 (→GE2)

A  lowering c2 to c2, added in GE1 (→GE2) in the middle of bar, presents the last of the arbitrary revisions resulting from complete misunderstanding of Chopin's sequence in bars 185-186. The accidental was removed in GE3.

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See b. 185

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris