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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. 7

e1 in A (→FEEE1EE2)

d1 in GE & EE3

The difference between GE and the remaining sources was questionable while Chopin was still alive. The version of GE may be either a revision of this edition (cf. the comment on b. 45-47) or a variation introduced by Chopin (to avoid parallel fifths in the top voices?, along with Lento? – cf. the comment on b. 1). Many years after Chopin's death, Camille Saint−Saëns stated that, judging from a vague answer of Liszt, who was asked about that issue, Chopin would play d1 here. However, the version featuring e1 is supported by the testimonies of four persons closely related to Chopin, i.e. Marcelina Czartoryska, Friederike Streicher, Ferdinand Hiller and Adolf Gutmann. Moreover, the version is also supported by A, which is a very reliable source, and FE, proofread by Chopin twice.

As in many other places in the Ballade and in other compositions by Chopin, in one of the later impressions of EE – in this case in EE3 – a change was introduced on the basis of a comparison with GE.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of GE

notation: Pitch

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