FE1
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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. 63-64

Possible interpretation of AI

AI (probable interpretation) & A (→FEGE,EE)

The notation of AI, in which the groups filling the 1st half of these bars are written as quavers, gives rise to doubts concerning the interpretation of the possible original version of the 2nd half of bar 63. In Chopin's intention, the deleted a1-a2 quaver could have been a semiquaver, as it has the same value as the previous octaves. Overall, it offers three possibilities of interpretation of the original version of this bar:

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issues: Rhythmic errors

notation: Rhythm

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