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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. 10-11

The crossings-out visible in A reveal an earlier version of the L.H. figures; in that version the 4th note of each of them was like the second and not the first. Analogous corrections are also visible in b. 55 and 70, which may mean that in the working notation of the Prelude, which Chopin used while writing A, the entire L.H. part was based on such figures, and the change to the final version was not marked at all or only signalised, e.g. at the beginning of the piece. The aforementioned corrections would therefore suggest that the composer temporarily lost his focus while modifying the figuration at the time of rewriting.

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category imprint: Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A, Deletions in A, Accompaniment changes

notation: Pitch

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