FE1
Main text
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. 12

 in A (→FEEE)

in FC (→GE)

To the main text we adopt the notation of the trill with a wavy line, in spite of the fact that in A Chopin wrote only . A comparison of all 6 bars with trills (b. 10, 12, 16, 28, 30 and 34) shows that Chopin used both types of notation interchangeably; his motivation was mainly the size of the gap between the end of the  mark and the grace notes closing the trill. He would fill the several-millimetre gaps with a wavy line regardless of the rhythmic value of the trilled note (minims in b. 10 and 28 and dotted crotchet in b. 30); in turn, he would leave smaller gaps without wavy lines (b. 12, 16 and 34). As in this context both types of notation carry the same meaning, in the main text we give the notation with a wavy line in all those bars. No other source reproduced the notation of A accurately – wavy lines were added or removed at random: in FC wavy lines are present in b. 10, 12, 28 and 34, in FE (→EE) – in b. 10 and 28, while in GE – in b. 10, 12 and 28. 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

notation: Ornaments

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