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GC - Gutmann'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 - 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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f in GC (→GE) & EE3

f in FE & EE1 (→EE2)

It is unclear whether the  raising f to f in GC was written by the copyist or Chopin:

  • In the first case the sign could have been copied only from one of the remaining Stichvorlage manuscripts. As it is neither in FE nor in EE, Chopin most probably removed it in the base texts to these editions, thus re-establishing the harmonic regularity of figurations. Such a scenario is supported by the presence of  before f on the last semiquaver in the bar in EE1, which would have made no sense if there had not been any sign preceding f. Initially, the sign must have been included in [A], as at the beginning it was printed in FE too. Therefore, deletion of this  in the proofreading of FE would have meant finishing the previous corrections in the base texts to FE and EE and would have proven that Chopin considered the version with f on the 2nd semiquaver of the last group as prevailing. One cannot also entirely exclude a possibility that Gutmann misinterpreted the correction in [A] in this place.
  • If the  was added by Chopin, we would be dealing with Chopin's hesitation, who, correcting GC, changed f to f and confirmed timeliness of the original version with f, while later proofreading FE.

According to us, it is the first possibility that is more likely, yet in both cases the proofreading of FE means that Chopin's final decision in this place was an f.

In EE2, most probably under the influence of FE on the last semiquaver of the bar was removed, whereas EE3 introduced the version of GE.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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