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Op. 28 No. 16, Prelude in B♭ minor

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GE1
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A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
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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  b. 19-21

Single slurs in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Double slurs in EE

Starting with the last quaver in bar 19, EE added additional slurs linking the pairs of the L.H. octaves. Similar arbitrary additions are not uncommon in Chopin's works published by Wessel. Similarly in the next bars.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

notation: Slurs

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