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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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No marking in AI, A (→GE) & FE

 in EE

Both in the original and final version the Etude ends without the  mark. Chopin would eagerly use such notation, additionally suggesting the sound atmosphere of the ending. The fact of adding the sign in EE is undoubtedly a revision of the editor.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, No pedal release mark

notation: Pedalling

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