EE1
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AI - Earlier autograph
A - Autograph
CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected reprint of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected reprint of GE1
GE1b - Flawed impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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No indications in AI & CDP

in A (→GE), FE & EE

Chopin added the tempo indication, including the metronome tempo, only at the stage of preparing the Etude for publication – in #AW they are absent. In A one can see that the metronome tempo was added (in pencil) to the already finished manuscript.

In CDP, the entire first part of the manuscript (to bar 19) is devoid of any performance markings, which almost certainly does not reflect the state of the copied manuscript (probably autograph). Due to this fact, we do not include this source in the notes discussing the performance indications.

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issues: Errors of CDP

notation: Verbal indications

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