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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. 9

g in sources, literal reading

g, our alternative suggestion

In A one can see corrections to the L.H. part concerning 5 subsequent figures starting from the middle of b. 9. Above all, the change covered the final quavers of each of them – initially, they did not constitute the f pedal note, but, like in the previous bars, they were moving in parallel to the semiquavers opening the particular figures. It also seems that the middle semiquavers on the 3rd beat of each of these bars were the same as in the previous figure:
. The presence of corrections in both bars proves that the idea of the change occurred to Chopin already after he had written at least the entire fragment in which g is a tonal note until the middle of b. 12 and was written with indispensable naturals a few times. It could have caused an oversight of the "obvious"  in the corrected 3rd figure in b. 9. Due to the above reason, we suggest this version, analogous to the respective place in b. 10, as a potentially authentic variant. See also the adjacent note.

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

issues: Corrections in A, Errors of A, Deletions in A, Accompaniment changes

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa