Bars 1-12, marked in A by Chopin with a conventional repetition sign, were rewritten in the editions. According to us, it is an arbitrary decision of the French editor, probably resulting from graphic issues – from the layout of the text on the pages. Consequently, analogous places display minor differences, which – due to the repetition in A – were certainly not intended by Chopin. The discrepancies mainly result from oversights and inaccuracy of the engravers and, to a certain extent, from Chopin's superficial review. Due to the fact that in the main text we preserve the notation of A, in the remaining sources, we adopt two manners of displaying the differing elements in the repeated bars 1-12:
- we put the elements which appear only the first time in parentheses;
- we put the elements which appear only the second time in square brackets.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Source & stylistic information
issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Inaccuracies in FE, EE inaccuracies
notation: Shorthand & other