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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. 3-11

In A (→FC,FE), there are no naturals raising b to b in b. 3 and 11. The accidentals were added in GE and EE.
In similar contexts – notes separated by an octave – Chopin would generally put accidentals only next to the first note in this Prelude – cf. the notes in b. 13, 14-15, 17-20, 21, 23, 25-28, 29, 30, 31, 35 and 44. In b. 13 and 29, he would even cross out the necessary accidentals, taking into account previous alterations an octave higher or lower. A similar phenomenon is to be found in some other Preludes – cf., e.g. the Prelude No. 8 in F Minor, b. 1-4

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Accidentals in different octaves, GE revisions, Inaccuracies in A, Errors repeated in FE

notation: Pitch

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