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Op. 25 No 2, Etude in F minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
AT
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. 69

No sign in AW, CDP & GC (→GE)

 in FE & EE

In the main text we do not give  at the end of the piece, as in GC (→GE) it was not deleted, which leads to the conclusion that Chopin eventually did not want this sign. There are two possible scenarios:

  • Chopin himself deleted in GC the  present in [A] (its omission in CDP would be the responsibility of the copyist);
  • Gutmann deleted the  he wrote "on the run," after having noticed its absence in [A], which is confirmed by CDP (at that time, the signs in FE and EE were editorial additions).

(In AW there is no pedalling in bars 68-69 at all.)

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections in GC

notation: Pedalling

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Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin and George Sand Museum, Valldemossa