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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
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  b. 1-2

c & d in As & AI

C & D in A & FE (→GE,EE)

In As and AI the bass notes in bars 1-2 are written an octave higher than in the version prepared for print (in A one can see traces of corrections from c to C in bar 1). Lowering bass is one of frequently used interventions by Chopin at the time of elaborating original ideas – cf. bars 14, 32, 39 and 55, 65 and 81, as well as, e.g., the Waltz in D major, No. 1, bars 50 and 77.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Corrections in A, Accompaniment changes, Bass register changes

notation: Pitch

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