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Op. 28 No. 21, Prelude in B♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
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. 54

2 bars in A (→FE→EE)

1 bar in FC (→GE)

The absence of this bar in FC (→GE) must be Fontana's mistake, a so-called haplography, i.e. omitting one out of two identical elements of writing, e.g. letter, syllable, word, etc. while copying. See also the Prelude No. 12 in G Minor, b. 78-79.

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