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Op. 25 No 2, Etude in F minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GC
Main text
AT - Autograph of a fragment
AW - Presentation Autograph
CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka
GC - Gutmann's Copy
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. 6-8

Slurs in AT

Divided slur in AW

Continuous slur in CDP, GC (→GE), FE & EE

In the version prepared for print, Chopin abandoned in this fragment any attempts to suggest any phrase divisions, both structural (AT) and expressive (AW). The written in AW phrase breath effect in the 2nd half of bar 7 (and 26) was used – in the form underlined with articulation – only on the occasion of the last appearance of this fragment (bar 57). 

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa