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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. 17-18

In A one can decipher the crossed-out, earlier version of the L.H. part, which was written an octave higher, hence these bars were an exact transposition of b. 9-10. At the same time, we can see that it was b. 18 that was changed first, since Chopin initially put a bass clef at the end of b. 17, which must have still been written in the treble clef. The corrections in the next bars reveal that the changes were a final stage of a broader transformation process of the entire ending of the Prelude. 

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category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A, Deletions in A

notation: Pitch

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