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Op. 28 No. 20, Prelude in C minor

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p. 1, b. 1-13
p. 1, b. 1-13
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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
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EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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FC - Fontana's copy
AB - Autograph Beauchesne
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CGS - Copy by George Sand
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
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  b. 3

e1 in A (literal reading→FE,FC→GE), AB & EE2

e1 in ACh, CGS, EE1 & FES

According to us, it is much more likely that the missing  restoring e1, which would result in e1 at the end of the bar, is one of numerous such oversights of Chopin – see, e.g. the note to b. 8 and 12 as well as to the Prelude No. 7 in A Major, b. 13 or No. 18 in F Minor, b. 8. Therefore, we assume that the flats entered or added in ACh, CGS and FES define or restore the only correct text, which we adopt as the main one. However, the version with e1 has a consistent place in the history of music, e.g. as the theme of variations of Feruccio Busoni (BV 213a) and of Sergei Rachmaninoff (Op. 22).
The double revision in EE is noteworthy – first a  was added in EE1 and then it was removed in EE2.  

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Omissions to cancel alteration, Errors of A, Annotations in FES

notation: Pitch

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