The correctness of the version of FE (→EE) is confirmed by the sources of the orchestral part – MFrorch and FEorch, whereby the latter contains a cautionary before this note in cellos, after the g featured four bars earlier. The pupil's copies also do not indicate a possible oversight of a before the discussed note – Chopin did not introduce changes in any of them. Therefore, the natural added in GE (also in cellos) is most probably an arbitrary editorial revision of that edition.
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