FESB
Main text
AsI - Working autograph of score
A - Autograph fair copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE3 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FESB - Later French edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 45-46

Notation in A (→GEEE,FESB)

Notation in FE1 (→FE2)

In the main text, we place a demisemiquaver under/over the last note of a semiquaver triplet in each of the 4 places where such a combination occurs, in accord with the notation of A (→GEEE,FESB). In FE1 (→FE2) the demisemiquaver in these figures is placed after the last semiquaver of the triplet. This is certainly an arbitrary revision of the engraver of this edition, who had not yet seen that Chopin was using this Baroque-Classical convention, which in the 19th century was gradually superseded by a notation conforming with the strictly calculated nominal rhythmic values of the notes.
Chopin would use that convention throughout his entire oeuvre – see the chapter dedicated to that issue in: Jan Ekier, Introduction to the National Edition, Editorial Issuesp. 183.

In all places (as well as in bar 44) AsI notes a dotted rhythm in twice the rhythmic values, as . This is an obvious mistake.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Rhythmic errors, Dotted rhythms and triplets, FE revisions

notation: Rhythm

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Original in: Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madryt