GE1
Main text
CLI - Copy by Linowski
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 45

No marking in CLI

 in FE (→GE,EE)

Our suggestion

The  indication falls on the 2nd beat of the bar in the sources. It seems highly unlikely that Chopin wanted to indicate exactly this place as the moment of reaching the forte dynamics, therefore, in the main text we propose to put the sign at the beginning of the bar. Chopin probably used here an earlier notation rule, according to which the signs were not placed at the beginning of the area covered by them, but somewhere in the middle. This type of notation can sometimes be encountered in his works. Cf. e.g. the notation of A in Etude in G, Op. 10 No. 5, bar 83.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Centrally placed marks

notation: Verbal indications

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