EE1
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½A - Semi-autograph
A - Autograph of the piano part
Morch - Manuscript of the orchestra part
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Retouched impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 322-324

Three flats before g notes visible in A are not written with Chopin's hand. Their omission in GE1 means that they were added later, probably in the time of preparing the first edition of the score or GE2, in which they were included (ca. 1865-1868). The same applies to the  before G at the beginning of bar 324 (as well as bar 316). In ½A the correct text may be unravelled also without these signs:

  • the use of g in bar 322 follows from a natural harmonic course; similarly G in bar 324, which actually does not formally require  a ;
  • in Morch, in the viola and cello parts there are gand g respectively; in both cases the flats are written in a manner not differing from the rest of the notation.

All possible doubts are dissipated by the proofreading of FE (→EE), almost certainly coming from Chopin, in which all necessary flats were added in bar 322 as well as a cautionary  before A at the end of bar 323 and E at the end of bar 324.

In the text of A we include four added accidentals, yet one should remember that the text written with Chopin's hand is transmitted by GE1.

GE2 included later additions of A and added a necessary  before the penultimate semiquaver in bar 322. In turn, the reviser of that edition did not feel the need to clarify the sound of A and E in the final parts of scale sequences in bars 323-324.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, Foreign hand additions in manuscripts, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, Bergamo