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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
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
EE - English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of [EE2]
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 61

 in A

 in FE (→GE,EE)

According to us, it is highly unlikely that  present in A was changed in FE (→GE,EE) to  as a result of Chopin's intervention. The dynamic contrasts in bars 29-32, 33-36 and 56-60 draw on the rule of double juxtaposition of the same indications ( or ). The version of A is compatible with this rule also in bars 61-64, while in FE it was broken and in a way which does not correspond to the musical flow. The engraver of FE could have simply forgotten about the 2nd .

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE

notation: Verbal indications

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Original in: Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa