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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
A
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. 115

b1 in chord in A (→FE,EE, →contextual interpretation of GC) & GE3

a1 in GC (literal reading→GE1→GE2)

In GC the second lowest note of the R.H. chord is written imprecisely (too low), so that GE1 (→GE2) read it as a1 instead of b1. The error was corrected in GE3.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, Inaccuracies in GC

notation: Pitch

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