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Atut - Autograph of first Tutti
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEFo - Forest copy
FEH - Hartmann copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2a - Altered impression of GE2
GE3 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 65-74

b1 repeated in Atut (→FEGE)

b1 tied in EE

Nothing indicates that the ties sustaining the bcrotchets in bars 65-66 and 73-74 could have come from Chopin. Theoretically, they could have been added by Fontana, who could perhaps recall Chopin's performances; this possibility allows for qualifying this version as, at most, a variant of questionable authenticity. If the composer wanted to sustain these notes, it would be difficult to explain why he did not mark it while writing Atut, proofreading FE (at least twice) or listening to pupils' performances.
The reviser of EE could have remained under the influence of the tie in bars 234-235; however, in that case the theme's melody is developed in a variational manner to a significant extent, so that moving such a detail from one version to another is out of the question (cf. the explicit repetition of the note in bars 226-227).     

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issues: EE revisions

notation: Rhythm

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris