The accents in bar 277 and 281 are placed in A over the R.H. chord, as is the longer 
hairpin in bar 279. However, there are no doubts that all these marks concern both hands, which would be less ambiguous if they had been placed between the staves. Both the fact that the marks were placed as such and the clear differences in their length (musically unjustified) suggest that the notation was less carefully thought through than in analogous bar 110, 112 and 114. Therefore, in the main text we move the marks between the staves, in accordance with the Chopinesque notation of all the remaining similar places (bars 283-285 and 6 analogous bars the first time this section appears – bars 110-118). A similar premise probably prompted the revisers of GE1 and EE to add separate accents for the L.H., whereby in GE1 it applies only to bar 281, since the accent in bar 277 was overlooked (in GE2 a long accent was added after A). Moreover, we replace the mark in bar 279 with a long accent, as in analogous motifs. The change of the type of accents to short ones performed in FE (→EE) is a very frequent inaccuracy concerning first Chopinesque editions.
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