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Op. 10 No 10, Etude in A♭ major

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Main text
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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f4 in A & GE

f3 in FE (→EE)

The longer octave sign in A is almost certainly Chopin's mistake. The error reached GE, where it remained unnoticed, through a proof copy of FE. In the last proofreading of FE (→EE), f4 was changed to f3, probably on the composer's request.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of A, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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