FE2
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GC - Gutmann's Copy
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
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected reprint of GE
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE
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  b. 141

g2-b2 in GC (→GE) & FE1 (→FE2EE)

g2-b2 in FE3 (→FE4)

The version of the 4th quaver with b2 cannot be authentic, as the  visible before this note in GC and FE1 (→FE2EE1) was probably supposed to concern the bottom note of the third, g2 (the revisers of GE and EE2 added another  here, considering its absence a common oversight). It is proved by a comparison with analogous bars – in all the remaining places (bars 137, 143, 145 and 147-149) the top voice of the dyads is led diatonically, without raising the note on the 4th quaver in the bar. It is confirmed by the Chopinesque proofreading of FE3 (→FE4), in which the sign was moved before the bottom note, which proves that the composer heard here g2-b2. On the other hand, if g2-b2 had really been intended by Chopin from the very beginning, the  in [A] would have probably been misplaced, since two persons – the copyist and the engraver of FE1 – misinterpreted it. 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, GE revisions, Omission of current key accidentals, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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Original in: British Library, Londyn