GC
Main text
GC - Gutmann's Copy
Afin - Autograph fragment of Finale
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second impression of FE
FE3 - Third impression of FE
FE4 - Fourth impression of FE
FESch - Scherbatoff Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FED - Dubois copy
FE5 - Second French edition
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE
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  b. 22

E-e in the sources (literal reading)

E-e (possible interpretation)

Our variant suggestion

This unique in Chopin's output (if we do not count the significantly shorter Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 14) and generally in the Romantic music piece raises doubts concerning the final pitch of the sounds. It concerns:

  • the last triplet in bars 22, 47 and 50, where the source text does not contain a clear mistake, yet, due to the harmonic reasons, one can assume Chopin's oversight of the signs cancelling the previous alterations. However, due to the fact that the harmony in the Finale is often ambivalent, in the main text we leave the source versions, suggesting possible additions in the form of accidentals over and under the staves. It is also, to an extent, supported by the absence of corrections in the pupil's copies;
  • the third triplet in bar 63, where the notation of the sources based directly on [A], interpreted literally, is erroneous – the 8th quaver is an A-a. Also in this case, neither stylistic nor source arguments indicate conclusively one of the versions, however, in this case one has to choose a conjecture. In the main text we suggest A-a, as we consider the interpretation of the note written without a cautionary accidental as compatible with the key signature to be more natural.

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