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Nocturne in C-sharp minor, Op. posth. Source: Hand-corrected proof, belonging to K. Wolicka. Annotations: Contains composer's final revisions, made in pencil on his deathbed, March 1849. Never published. Fate: Destroyed, Warsaw Uprising, 1944. The PDF opened