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FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 8-9

in bar 8 in FC (→GE)

in bar 9 in FE (→EE)

The difference in the position of could result from the Chopinesque manner of writing markings between the upbeat and the 1st note in the bar (Chopin would write separate bar lines on each stave, hence he had space between the staves there). Examples of such markings, written down ambiguously, are quite numerous, cf., e.g. the Concerto in E minor, Op. 11, mov. I, bar 1 or 16 or the Prelude in B minor, Op. 28 No. 16, bars 45-46. Fontana, whose marks of this kind were generally smaller than those Chopin wrote in his autographs, managed to write  at the end of bar 8; however, the engraver of FE regarded it as referring to bar 9. In this context, there are no doubts that this indication is valid from the beginning of a new phrase, hence from d2 in bar 8, which we express in the main text, following the FC notation (→GE).

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