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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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f1 in AI

e1 in A (→CDP,GE), FE & EE

In the preserved photography of AI, it is hard to state whether Chopin, while correcting the 16th note in the R.H., changed e1 to for the other way round. According to us, it is the second possibility that is more plausible, as the other changes visible in AI generally strive towards the versions written later in A. However, as the version with e1 is represented by the remaining sources, for AI we adopt f1, which at a certain stage of composing the Etude was certainly considered by Chopin. 

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

notation: Pitch

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