Two types of staccato markings, wedges and dots, present in FE (→EE), very typical of Chopin in that period, were reduced to dots in GE (in the entire Variations). According to us, it is unlikely that this change could have been encouraged by Chopin – it was rather the engraver: he made his task easier by using only one type of markings. Therefore, in the main text we keep the wedges present in FE; as the change concerns all wedges, we consider the GE dots together as one variant, on this page encompassing 7 marks in bars 7-8 and 11-13. The absence of the mark in bar 13 is most probably an oversight by the EE engraver.
See also bar 10 in which the FE wedges probably resulted from a misinterpretation of the Chopinesque manuscript.
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category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: GE revisions, EE inaccuracies
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins