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Op. 28 No. 17, Prelude in A♭ major

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p. 2, b. 24-42
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p. 3, b. 43-64
p. 4, b. 65-90
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  b. 33

In A (→FE) there are only 3 flats before the 1st chord – e2, c2 in the R.H. and a1 in the L.H. In FC and EE1 a  lowering c1 to c1 and a cautionary one before a were added, while in GE and EE2 a cautionary  before e1 was also added.
The necessary  lowering c1 to c1 was added in FED.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Annotations in FED, Accidentals in different octaves, Cautionary accidentals, Fontana's revisions, Inaccuracies in A, Errors repeated in FE

notation: Pitch

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