On the photographs of A available to us, it is impossible to state whether on the 2nd and 3rd beats of the bar there are c
1 notes or not. We assume, in accordance with the editions, that the notes are visible in this place, however, on the basis of analysis of all twelve analogous bars, we consider the version with triads to be most probably erroneous. The following scenarios are possible:
- accidental merging of note stems with ledger lines, looking like notes;
- Chopin's erroneous introduction of the original version from the draft;
- omission of the correction of the original version in A (in analogous bar 58 one can see deletions-corrections of respective crotchets in A) and FE.
Similarly in bars 106 and 170.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: Errors in FE, Uncertain notes on ledger lines
notation: Pitch