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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. 41

Unslashed grace note in A

Slashed grace note in FC (→GE) & EE2

Small crotchet in FE (→EE1)

In the main text we keep the Chopinesque notation of the grace note as small, non-slashed quaver. The remaining source versions are inauthentic – slashing grace notes was a constant manner of Fontana, while overlooked flags are one of the most frequent mistakes of FE. After all, in this context, those versions are equivalent, since Chopin quite often did not attach importance to the form of notation of grace notes – cf., e.g. the Prelude No. 2 in A Minor, b. 5 and analog., or the Mazurka in G Minor, Op. 24 No. 1, b. 41.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Errors in FE, Fontana's revisions

notation: Ornaments

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris