EE1
Main text
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. 318

No accidental (d3)  in FE (→EE,GE1GE2)

 (d3) in GE3

 (d3), our alternative suggestion

The sound of the penultimate semiquaver, devoid of an accidental in FE (→EE,GE1GE2), may raise doubts. When interpreted literally, it is a ddue to the valid  before the 2nd semiquaver. This version, satisfying from the harmonic point of view – d3 = eis a chord element, as in all similarly structured figures in bars 315-318 – must be considered the basic one.

On the other hand, seeing ein the chord in the L.H., it is easy to forget about the previous  and read this note as a d3. It is even more likely, since in the version with d3, the last four semiquavers reproduce the melodic and pianistic scheme shaped in the two previous figures. Such oversights of cancellations of alterations are one of the most frequent mistakes of Chopin, most probably committed shortly before – the  restoring b2 on the 8th semiquaver in the bar was almost certainly added in FE only at the stage of proofreading, hence it was absent in [A].

In this case, the absence of annotations in the pupils' copies cannot be considered an argument, since a non-standard enharmonic notation does not guarantee that the pupils performed the formally written text (with d3) or still less, that they performed what it seems to be at first glance, i.e. d3.

All in all, in the main text, we give the version with d3, adding a reminding  before this note (such an addition was introduced already in GE3). We suggest the version with das an acceptable variant.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Omissions to cancel alteration, GE revisions

notation: Pitch

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Original in: New York Public Library at Lincoln Center