Atut
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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. 185

Chord in sources (3 notes)

Our alternative suggestion (4 notes)

The chord on the last beat has three elements in the sources in bar 185, whereas in analogous bar 540, there are four elements. According to us, it does not provide any guarantee that Chopin indeed wanted to diversify this detail. Both versions sound good, hence the composer could have hesitated at the time of choosing one of them. This, in turn, could have resulted in deletions impeding the interpretation of [A] or in an accidental oversight of a proofreading of one of these places, which would happen to Chopin quite frequently (cf. e.g. the Sonata in B minor, op. 35, the 2nd mov., bars 10-11 or the Mazurka in G minor, op. 24, no. 1, bars 26-27). In this situation, we suggest the four-note version of this chord as an acceptable variant, enabling the performance of the same text in both places.

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notation: Pitch

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Original in: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna