GE1op
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As - Autograph sketch
AI - Autograph Rothschild
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German Edition
GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
GE1no2 - First German edition of Waltz No 2
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2no2 - Second German edition of Waltz No 2
GE3op - Corrected impression of GE2op
EE - English Edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of EEW1
compare
  b. 92-93

As

AI

A (→FEGE,EE)

The visible evolution of the accompanying part generally consisted in an each time earlier introduction of the diminished seventh chord – in As on the last beat of bar 93, in AI – a crotchet earlier, in the version intended for print – already in bar 92. In both earlier autographs, the bars are an exact repetition of bars 76-77 (also in the melodic line); in turn, in the final version, Chopin clearly differentiated between the mood of the phrase's climax – for the first time, the diminished chord naturally introduces a D major cadence; for the second time, the harmonic course is dramatically suspended on this chord, whereas the descending phrase in the R.H. carefully avoids any associations with the D major key.
In FE, there is no  raising g1 to gin bar 93, which became necessary after a 5th flat in the key signature was added – cf. bars 64-96. The inadvertence was corrected in EE. The sign was added – unnecessarily – also in GE2no2.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions, Errors in FE, GE revisions, Accompaniment changes

notation: Pitch

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Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw