AI
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. 21-23

L.H. minims in As, AI, AII & AIII

Crotchets in A (→FEGE1op,GE1Db,EE)

Crotchets &  e1 in GE2op (→#GE3op) & EEW1 (→EEW2)

Already in As, Chopin wrote two versions of accompaniment in these bars and in bar 24, however, it is not clear how he planned to use them. Eventually, in all later sources they were used to diversify the repeating figures through differentiation of the part of the L.H. in bars 21-24 and 29-32. The presentation autographs and the published version differ, however, in the order of appearance of both versions – apart from minor details, AI, AII and AIII first include the "tenor" version, which in A (→FEGE,EE) appears only as the second.
In order to preserve the continuity of the bass line after a possible version change, in the context of this note, one has to choose one of the corresponding variants in bars bar 20 and bar 24.

In the main text we add a cautionary  before e1 in bar 21, after the authentic sign before g1 in bar 23.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations, Accompaniment changes

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Universitätsbibliothek, Bonn