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Chopin sonata #2 Opus 35:
Look at the left hand: Db from small octave and F from 1-st octave. Neither I, nor anybody of my acquaintances can stretch the hand so far.
My idea was to replace F 1-t octave to F small octave. But this is a hack of course. How do professionals play it? It can't be made for the people with huge hands only.
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It is probably a typo. But if it isn't (which I doubt) then you might have to flick your wrist, basically rolling the chord (though its not marked and wouldn't make sense in the context of the song). Its a fun technique to practice, especially when you nail the notes, but difficult in the beginning. Check out Chopin - Etude Op. 10 No. 5, which has a lot of those. Liszt also has some huge rolled arpeggios in his La Campanella.
I won't talk about if it's transcribed correctly or not, because I don't know the piece...
However, the part you've mentioned is actually 'only' a 10th.
There are a lot of people who can reach a 10th in certain key signatures, me included:
This 10th for example is very easy for me to reach, in the key of C I could even get it up to an 11th:
If you can't reach a 10th, just roll the chord/notes from low to high. There are people with small hands who can't even reach an octave. They also just roll the chords. Of course in this situation the sustain pedal might be helpful to not lose the lower notes after you rolled them ;)
If done properly it still sounds good, just a bit different.
This does not seem to be a typo, as evidenced by a clear D♭ in the bass on page 14 of the autograph manuscript:
On page 14 of Kullak's "instructive edition" found here, the editor suggests fingering the chord 5𣛧 and rolling the chord to get all three pitches:
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