AI
Main text
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
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  b. 75-76

g & g in As, A & GE

g & g in AI

g & chord in FE (→EE)

Three versions of the accompaniment prove that Chopin would be looking for the best harmonic and rhythmic formula for these bars. The process lasted until the last moment, since the version adopted in the main text, with a sustained chord, was introduced by the composer only in the final stage of proofreading of FE (→EE). He also hesitated – in A one can see deletions proving several corrections whose final result was a version identical with the original one, written in As, whereas AI has a different text too.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paryż