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Op. 28 No. 12, Prelude in G♯ minor

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GE1
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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. 78-79

Bars 78-79 in A (→FE→EE)

No these bars in FC (→GE)

These bars were overlooked in FC (→GE). It is a typical mistake of copyists – the so-called haplography – where an element or fragment that should be written twice is written once; in this case, the discussed bars were overlooked, since they were very similar to b. 76-77 (which preceded them). Fontana committed such a mistake also in the Prelude No. 21 in B Major, b. 54. 

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

notation: Pitch

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