AI
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AI - Working 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
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 15

c2 in AI, literal reading

b1 in FE (→GE,EE)

Interpretation of the pitch of the 2nd and 3rd crotchets in AI poses difficulties – the note heads are slightly bigger than usually, which suggests performed corrections, yet their result is not clear:

  • on the 2nd crotchet of the bar one can see c2 (more likely) or d2,
  • on the 3rd crotchet one can see c2, yet one also cannot exclude b1.

Taking into account the fact that first three crotchets of the text are written at an each time lower pitch and the phrase development in the published version seems to be so natural thanks to repetitions of the four-note motif, one can suppose that the seemingly different notation of AI is simply erroneous, while in the notation of the 3rd crotchet, two clear errors overlapped – lack of  and inaccurate position of the note head.

As the version of AI we adopt a stylistically acceptable text which imposes itself, while interpreting without detailed analyses and comparisons. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Inaccurate note pitch in A

notation: Pitch

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