GE1
Main text
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
compare
  b. 35

No accidental before the 3rd semiquaver of the triplet in A (→GE1FEEE)

 raising f2 to  sharp2 in GE2

We supplement the  raising f2 to fis2. The sharp was probably omitted by Chopin due to oversight, as:

  • the key in force is A major; in such a situation omitting some of the accidentals necessary for the correct notation is  a rule in Chopin's manuscripts (cf. e.g. Impromptu in A flat Op. 29, bar 48; in the Prelude in A flat  Op. 28 no. 17, in bar 19 none of the sources connected with the publication has  http://sm.multimatechopin.com/uploads/ckeditor/images/%23O.png sharpening f1 to f sharp1, yet the accidental written into a copy of an earlier redaction  of that work testifies to the composer's mistake).
  • the role of this 3.5-bar long fragment in A major is to prepare the listener for the c sharp minor in bar 38; the use of the lowered 6th grade of the scale could disturb - somewhat prematurely - the harmonic colour.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, Omission of current key accidentals

notation: Pitch

Go to the music

.

Original in: Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa