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Op. 28 No. 4, Prelude in E minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Main text
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
CGS - Copy by George Sand
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz 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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A cautionary  before B occurs in all sources except As. We also add an accidental before the lower note of the octave in the main text.
As has no sharps raising d-d1 to d-d1. It is certainly a sketchy notation and not a variant.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Cautionary accidentals, Omission of current key accidentals

notation: Pitch

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