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Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 1

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

Title & dedication in A

Title & dedication in GE1

Title & dedication in GE2 (→GE3)

Title & dedication in FE

Title & dedication in EE1 & EE3

Title in EE2

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In the main text we give the title and dedication after the title page of the entire opus in A and FE.
See the Etude in A major, No. 1.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Dedications , GE revisions

b. 1-6

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

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Chopin's intention of providing all bass notes with staccato dots remains beyond any doubt, despite the fact that in A the last dot is missing (or it is written in an unclear manner). It is FE and GE2 (→GE3) that include the totally correct notation in this respect. In the remaining editions, the notation is more or less inaccurate – GE completely omits the dots in these bars, while EE puts them only next to a few notes, rather accidentally (one dot was omitted in each of the following bars: 1-3 and 5-6).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions , EE inaccuracies , Inaccuracies in A

b. 3

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

g2 (without ) in A (→GE1), FE & EE 

g2 in GE2 (→GE3)

g2 (with ) in FES
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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.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

b. 3

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

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In A (→GE1), FE and EE there is no  returning f2 in the penultimate sixth. This patent error was noticed only in GE2 (→GE3) on the occasion of a thorough revision of accidentals – cf. the notes concerning the natural and flat before the previous sixth. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Errors in EE , Omissions to cancel alteration , Errors in GE , GE revisions , Errors of A

b. 3

composition: Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

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In the main text we add a cautionary  before e3; the addition was already introduced in GE and repeated in EE3. In GE2 (→GE3) a poorly justified cautionary  was added also before d3 (as well as an erroneous  before the bottom note of the 10th sixth).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions