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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
AI
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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  b. 42-43

in AI

in A (→GE), FE & EE

No indication in CDP

The ritenuto indication, written in AI, is certainly earlier than smorzando, which Chopin chose at the time of writing A. Minor deviations in the placement of the indication visible in FE and EE were probably created randomly and they do not influence the meaning of the indication. 

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