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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

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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. 63

a1 in A (→FE,EE) & GE3

g1 in GC (→GE1→GE2)

The version in GC (→GE1→GE2) is certainly erroneous, for the copy shows no sign of Chopin's correction there. The mistake is probably of a "musical-pianistic" type, and not a lapsus calami – the chord with g1 corresponds exactly to the range of the two last groups of four semiquavers in bar 62. The change in GE3 was introduced presumably after the following bar or FE.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context

issues: Errors in GE

notation: Pitch

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