GE2
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A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Later impression of GE1
GET - Toruń copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
FEFr - Franchomme copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English Edition
EE3 - Later impression of EE1
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  b. 52

No cautionary accidentals in A

 in GE1

 and  in FE (-EE) and GE2

Despite the lack of accidentals before the 4th, 11th and 16th note in the second half of the bar, the text of A is clear: first c3, and then c flat4 twice. In this situation the  added in  GE1 before the last one of those seems strange. In our opinion, that sign indicates that GE1 was written in several stages: the flat was placed when the 3rd note of the bar still had an erroneous  (later changed to ). Later changes made both in the proofing of FE (→EE) and in GE2 – the addition of  before c3 and moving  before the first one of the two c flat4 – do not change the actual sounds but make the chromatic notation more precise and facilitate its reading.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, Cautionary accidentals, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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