In A, Chopin omitted a number of naturals to e notes:
- to e2 and e in b. 95 and 99,
- to E in b. 96 and 100,
- to e in b. 101 and 102.
Most likely, we are not dealing with oversights, since we can observe a rule followed by Chopin – in each bar and on each stave, he would put an accidental the first time a given note appeared and would not repeat it before subsequent notes, even if they appeared in a different octave. In b. 99 one can see removed naturals to e1 and e on the 5th crotchet in the bar, which proves that the rule was applied consciously.
The editions would be gradually adding the missing naturals:
- FE added accidentals to e in b. 99 and 101-102;
- GE added all the accidentals that were missing in FE, hence the version of GE is fully correct;
- in EE1, the accidentals repeated after FE were supplemented by a
to E in b. 100, while EE2 also added both naturals to e2 (b. 95 and 99). EE3 contains all the necessary naturals.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: EE revisions, Accidentals in different octaves, GE revisions, Inaccuracies in A, Errors repeated in FE, Errors repeated in EE
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