GE5
Main text
A - Autograph
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
compare
  b. 45

 in A

FE (→GE1,EE)

GE2 (→GE3GE4GE5)

Our suggestion

Allegedly, the mark of A was supposed to have a similar range as in the significantly less carefully written bars 5 and 13. The notation of A shows signs of underdevelopment and haste in this aspect, e.g., lack of the tie sustaining (while the tie of eis marked only in bar 44, at the end of the line), lack of the dot extending the e1 minim, lack of the  returning g in bar 46. Therefore, in the main text we suggest the indications used by Chopin in bars 5 and 13.

The character of the  hairpins in FE (→GE1,EE) is actually the one of a long accent nature, yet it is uncertain whether their arrangement in the 1st half of the bar was a result of Chopin's intervention or of the engraver's inaccuracy. In subsequent GE,s the mark was arbitrarily extended with an unexpected consistency (which is averaged by us).

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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