FE1
Main text
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. 98

No c2 in A & GE2

c2 in GE1

c2 tied in FE (→EE)

An additional cnote could have been added by Chopin in the proofreading of GE1 (→FEEE). The melodic line of the accompaniment, where the second quaver of each pair is higher than the previous dyad or chord, suggests that the note was probably to be sustained, which was then performed in the proofreading of FE (→EE). It cannot be excluded that the additional cwas printed in GE1 by mistake and left unnecessarily after having added the correct note, a(a Terzverschreibung error). The tie of this note, added in the proofreading of FE (→EE) and eliminating its repetition, would be then a "simplified correction," which would happen in Chopin's works, e.g. in the Polonaise in C minor, Op. 40 No. 2, bar 125. GE2 restored the version of A.

In the main text we give the version of FE as intended or accepted by Chopin. The version of A may be considered an equal variant, whereas the version of GE1 is almost certainly erroneous. 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE, Terzverschreibung error, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FE, Authentic corrections of GE, Partial corrections

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris