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Op. 25 No 5, Etude in E minor

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GE2
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FC - Fontana'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. 87-88

Minim in FC

Tied dotted minim in FE & EE

Minim with rest in GE

The creation of the version of FC may be explained with an oversight of the copyist, who overlooked the dot and tie extending the sound of the d minim. It is also possible that Chopin omitted FC, while adding the sustention of d in the remaining Stichvorlage manuscripts (base texts to FE and EE) – the version of FC would be then the original version. In GE the version was completed with an arbitrary rest (in GE1 two rests were added erroneously).

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