GE4
Main text
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
GE4 - Corrected impression of GE3
GE1a - Album German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Amended impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 171

d2-a2 & a2-b2 in A & FE1 (→GE1GE2, →EE1EE2)

d2-a2-a2 & d2-b2 in FE2

a2-a2 & d2-b2 suggested by the editors

f2-a2 & d2-a2-b2 in GE1a

a2-a2 & b2 in GE3 (→GE4)

a2 & d2-a2-b2 in EE3

The version of A (→FE1) (→GE1GE2EE1EE2) was changed in FE2. The change was almost certainly performed at Chopin's request; however, it is unlikely that he would have wanted to leave d2 in the penultimate crotchet of the quintuplet – the aim of the correction was most probably a version analogous to b. 170. Therefore, it would be an example of an unfinished correction – the engraver was supposed to move d2 from the 4th crotchet to the 5th; he inserted it in a new place, but did not remove it from the former. Such mistakes are very frequent, e.g. in the Ballade in F, Op. 38, b. 179, the Scherzo in B minor, Op. 20, b. 135 and 292 or the Polonaise in A, Op. 40 No. 1, b. 93). Therefore, in the main text we suggest a respectively modified version of FE2, most probably intended by Chopin.

Versions of the remaining sources are arbitrary attempts to partially or completely unify the respective fragments of b. 170 and 171.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions, Errors in EE, Errors in GE, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pitch

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Original in: Zbiory prywatne (kolekcja Jana Ekiera), Warszawa