mUltimate Chopin

Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
Main text
A - Autograph
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 - Another copy 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. 3

g2 (without ) in A (→GE1), FE & EE 

g2 in GE2 (→GE3)

g2 (with ) in FES

There is no accidental before the bottom note of the 10th sixth, which makes it to be interpreted as g2. The flat added here in GE2 (→GE3) cannot come from Chopin, yet, one has to admit that a similar addition in many other places would be absolutely accurate – cf. the adjacent note. Possible doubts concerning the sound of this note is dissipated by the  added before it in FES.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris