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A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FED - Dubois Copy
FES - Stirling Copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Revised impression of GE3
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
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  b. 103-104

Single notes in A (→FE1GE)

Octaves in FE2 (→EE)

Chopin doubled the bass in the bottom octave in the proofreading of FE2 (→EE).

In the majority of the later collective editions, the 1st octave in bar 103 was arbitrarily changed from F1−F to G1−G. In order to consider this change to be accurate, Chopin would have had to:

  1. commit a mistake in A, by writing a wrong note very clearly – the note head is placed at a significant distance from the stave, hence there is no doubt it is an F;
  2. leave this mistake unnoticed, by adding a doubling of this note in octave in the proofreading of FE2.

This kind of coincidence seems to be totally unlikely, therefore the described change is only a proof of difficulties in accepting some of Chopin's unconventional harmonic turns.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Authentic corrections of FE, Bass register changes

notation: Pitch

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