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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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  b. 57

f in GC (→GE1), FE & EE

f with  in GE2 (→GE3)

f  suggested by the editors

Chopin's oversight of the sharps raising f to f is supported by the following arguments:

  • in all similarly structured bars – e.g. bars 9-12, 17-18 and analog. – subsequent odd semiquavers create pairs made of delay and resolution, separated with an interval of minor or major second; f notes would have broken this rule;
  • introduction of a chord with a minor f ninth already in bar 57 would have unnecessarily anticipated the appearance of this chords in bar 59;
  • this type of oversights of accidentals are quite frequent in Chopin's works (cf., e.g., the notes to bars 11 and 75 and 46 of this etude, as well as to the Etude in G minor, Op. 25 No. 6, bars 7-8).

GE2 (→GE3) added cautionary naturals before these notes.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions, Omission of current key accidentals

notation: Pitch

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