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Op. 64 No 1, Waltz in D♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
AI - Autograph I
AII - Autograph Caraman
AIII - Autograph Rothschild
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
GE1Db - First German edition of Waltz No 1
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2Db - Second German edition of Waltz No 1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2op
GE3Db - Third German edition of Waltz No 1
GE4Db - Revised impression of GE3Db
EE - English edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of WaW1
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  b. 67

A & c1-g1 in As & AIII

a-c1-g1 in AI

Crotchets a & c1-g1 in AII

Minim a & c1-g1 in A (→FE→GE,EE)

In this bar the accompaniment evolved through a few versions. Chopin started from the version of AIII, written in As as the first one. The next one was probably the second entirely different version of As (see bars 62-69), rejected – deleted – still at the stage of writing the sketch. In AI and AII two versions were tested, already very close to the one that was finally accepted in A and editions.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations

notation: Pitch

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