GE1
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A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
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  b. 148-150

3 short accents in A

Long accent in GE

Long accent in FE

No marks in EE1

Short & long accents in EE2

The notation of accents in bar 148 and 150 is inaccurate in all sources, hence in the main text we suggest 4 accents (short alternating with long) after bars 224-230 and 311-315, more carefully developed in A. In A we can see here 3 more or less identical marks, which we interpret as short. The only accent in FE, in the middle of bar 148, is, however, long, which suggests that this is how it was reproduced – on the basis of A – by Fontana in the copy that served as the basis for FE. The absence of marks at the beginning of these bars in FE (→EE) indicates that they were added to A later, after [FC] had been finished.
In GE the missing 2nd accent in bar 148 can be explained by corrections in A – Chopin left the accent over the deleted version but did not repeat it in the final version, written on the stave below. The absence of the mark in bar 150 is just an oversight.
In EE1 the only accent present in FE was overlooked, which was corrected in EE2, in which an accent at the beginning of this bar was also added (after GE1).

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents, EE revisions, Errors in EE, Errors in GE

notation: Pitch

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