EE
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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Crotchets in the middle voice in FC (→GE)

Quavers in the middle voice in FE

Quaver & crotchet in EE

Determining the affiliation of the middle components of chords to one of the two written voices sometimes poses a serious difficulty in Chopin's works. The notation is often inaccurate, there are also note heads which are not linked to any stem or just the opposite – linked with one stem going both upwards and downwards (cf., e.g., the autograph of the Etude in A minor, No. 4). This is a possible explanation of the differences in this bar between FC (→GE), FE and EE. Due to the fact that the authentic pedalling makes that this detail of notation influences the sound effect to a minor extent, in the main text we adopt the notation of the basic source, i.e. FE.   

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