The change of authentic e
2 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
