Main text
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. 64-84

No beams in AsI & A

Beamed quavers in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)

In the main text we keep the unbeamed notation of the L.H. quavers, consistently used by Chopin both in AsI and A. Wherever an entire bar includes only such quavers (unbeamed), in GE (→FE,EE,FESB) the quavers were beamed in twos or fours. This was probably aimed at facilitating the engraving by reducing the number of elements of notation. Such changes in beaming are also in the R.H. as well as in further variations. We comment on them and reproduce them only in cases where a significant number of changes impacts the general graphic representation of the text – see Variation IV.

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