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WN 37, Lento con gran espressione

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  b. 56

Grace notes in A1 & CJ

No grace notes in CJ (→CK) & EL

The missing grace notes opening the trill are almost certainly Kolberg's mistake, who interpreted them as a . This version was copied in CB and EL, yet Balakirev omitted the , completely superfluous in this context (on the crossed-out first version of the last page of CB, one can see that the Russian composer started writing this , yet after putting the first vertical line, he realised that it was pointless here and abandoned it).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in CK

notation: Ornaments

Missing markers on sources: A1, CJ, CK, CB, EL
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