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FCI - Fontana's copy I
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. 43

In A one can see that Chopin initially wrote the mordent with a conventional  mark. In the grace notes added instead of , the  before c2 merged with the arpeggio sign, resulting in a mark resembling a . Consequently, in FE (→EE1) the 2nd grace note is c2. Chopin reacted to this mistake in FES by adding a  in pencil (which Miss Stirling later wrote in ink). The correct text is also to be seen in EE2, probably on the basis of GE1.

In this place, FCI includes an earlier version – there are no ornaments on the 4th quaver in the bar, while b1 is linked with a tie to the dotted crotchet at the beginning of the bar.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Errors in FE, Corrections in A, Errors resulting from corrections, Deletions in A, Annotations in FES, Main-line changes, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Ornaments

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