Chopin decided to publish bar 7 – together with the last quaver in bar 6 – in a changed version with respect to the notation of As. However, according to us, it is uncertain which version was earlier, since the notation of As suggests that corrections were being made to the first version:
- it seems that the natural at the end of bar 6 was added later,
- the 1st quaver in bar 7 could have been changed from g1 to a
1, - it seems that the 2nd quaver was added in between the adjacent ones,
- the flag and it having been slashed in the a1 grace note seem to have been added to the stem of a normal quaver (penultimate in the initial version).
If all the above assumptions proved to be true, it would turn out that it was the final version that was entered first (except the enharmonically equivalent notation of the 2nd quaver in bar 7, g1 instead of a
1). Therefore, it would be a very clear example of Chopin's hesitation.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information
issues: Chopin's hesitations, Main-line changes
notation: Pitch