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Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
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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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e2 in A (→FE→EE,GE1→GE1a,GE2)

d2 in GE3 (→GE4)

The change of authentic e2 to d2 performed several dozen years after Chopin's death was an arbitrary decision. It is difficult to say what prompted the reviser of GE3 to introduce it – whether he was convinced (unjustifiably) that it was a G minor chord that was valid as the harmonic basis or whether he was unable to find a comfortable fingering (after all, there are several possibilities).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

notation: Pitch

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