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Op. 28 No. 1, Prelude in C major

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p. 1, b. 1-34
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  b. 34

Pause over upper staff in A (→FC→GE)

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

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