EE1
Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewiczowa's Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 34

Pause over upper staff in A (→FCGE)

Two pauses in FE (→EE)

In the main text we include the revision of FE (→EE), since there are no doubts that the part of the chord falling on the L.H. is supposed to last as long as the one falling on the R.H. Chopin was not consistent in this respect; sometimes he would write one, sometimes two fermatas, which does not influence the performance in similar contexts (cf., e.g. Preludes Nos. 1-3 featuring one fermata, but Nos. 4 and 8 – two). In the main text we keep the notation with one fermata only in the cases when an entire chord is written on one stave, e.g. in the Prelude No. 2 in A Minor.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: FE revisions

notation: Rhythm

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Original in: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York