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Title & dedica­tion in A

FC

FE

GE

EE1

EE1a & EE2

In the main text we give the title and the dedication in accordance with FE, which reproduced the title as found in A and took into account Chopin's wish expressed in a letter to Fontana, i.e. Chopin wanted the Preludes to be dedicated to C. Pleyel and not J. C. Kessler. However, it remains unclear why the change of dedication was not considered in GE, despite it having been written in FC. The wording of the title and the dedication in English as well as calling the Preludes “grand” and adding the information “through all keys” are all arbitrary decisions of EE.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Dedications

notation: Verbal indications

Missing markers on sources: A, FC, FE1, FE2, FEJ, FED, FES, FESch, GE1, GE2, GE3, EE1a, EE2, EE1