FE1
Main text
AI - Working autograph
AF - Autograph fair-copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 84

Fifth in AI & GE

Three-note chord in AF (→FEEE)

Our variant suggestion

Like in b. 56, it is difficult to determine which of the versions Chopin considered to be final. Assuming that the version of AF was written later, one can consider the unification of b. 52 and 84 to be Chopin's final decision, particularly since there is no reason why they should be different. On the other hand, Chopin wrote in AF – apparently due to distraction – the original versions of b. 82 and 85 (then corrected), which gives no certainty as to the version of the discussed bar, since the version of b. 52 could have been entered here by mistake. Due to the above reason, in the main text we suggest a variant solution with f in brackets.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw