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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

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FE1
Main text
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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e in CDP

d in AI, A (→GE), FE & EE

The version of CDP results in a pianistically uncomfortable cluster of three e notes, played alternately by the right and left hand. Therefore, it is most probably a mistake – the copyist did not notice the difference between the third and fourth figure in this bar and marked the latter as repetition of the previous one. He committed a similar and undeniable, yet more serious, mistake also at the very beginning of the Etude. 

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