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Op. 28 No. 8, Prelude in F♯ minor

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Main text
Main text
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. 14

In the main text we omit the  before G present in the sources in the 3rd L.H. figure. The accidental is a consequence of a problematic chromatic notation used by Chopin in this Prelude (see b. 3-4) – a flat at this pitch should have already been in the 1st figure.

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