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Op. 25 No 5, Etude in E minor

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FE1
Main text
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. 73

g-d1-b1-f1 in FC (→GE), FE & EE1

g1-d2-b2-f2 in EE2 (→EE3)

The version of EE2 (→EE3), in which the 1st triplet of the R.H. is written one octave higher than in the remaining sources is certainly an arbitrary revision. Its aim was certainly to avoid the leap between the 1st and 2nd triplet of the R.H., which can be considered to be pianistically justified, yet not as far as the sound is concerned.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris