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A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
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
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 6-11

As was the case in the Prelude No. 8 in F Minor, Chopin assumed that the middle notes of the triplets did not require an accidental if a respective accidental had been written before a top-voice note placed an octave higher. In A (→FCFE) and CGS there is not a single out of 8 necessary accidentals –  before and in b. 6, g in b. 7, in b. 9-10, in b. 10-11 and a  before d in b. 11. The remaining editions added the majority of accidentals; however, none of them features a fully correct text:

  • GE1 added 6 accidentals – the  before in b. 10 and the  before d in b. 11 were overlooked;
  • GE2 added to them only a  in b. 11;
  • EE1 added 5 accidentals – the  before in b. 6 and 10 and the  before d in b. 11 were overlooked;
  • EE2 added to them only  before in b. 6 and 10.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

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

notation: Pitch

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