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Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

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p. 2, b. 15-22
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  b. 16

f2 in A

No f2 in FC (→GE1)

f2 in FE (→EE) & GE2 (→GE3)

The missing f2 crotchet in FC (→GE1) may be a result of an unfinished or failed correction of the pitch of that note – in the place where the stem of the chord ends, e2 was probably removed. Another possibility is a misrepresenting its notehead in A for a mere thickening at the end of stem. The copyist also omitted the arpeggio sign before that chord and the slur. The revision restoring a tolerably correct text in GE2 (→GE3) was most probably based on FE, which is indicated by an identical unification of the rhythmic values of the g1-b1 third (in FE the unification most probably resulted from a misunderstanding of the notation of A) and by the way the misleading notation in the previous bar was corrected.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Different values of chord components, Inaccuracies in FE, GE revisions, Errors of FC

notation: Pitch

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