In the case of a single mark, it is difficult to say whether its absence in FE resulted from an oversight or whether Chopin added this accent to A after [FC] had been finished. The length of this accent is also uncertain, particularly when compared with the mark at the beginning of bar 318. The interpretation we adopted is supported by (in addition to the musical context – long note) a combination of graphic factors – it is longer than the marks in bar 317 and narrower and tilted to a lesser extent than the accent in bar 318. The engraver of GE was also influenced by the mark's length to a certain extent – in this edition the respective mark is slightly longer than the previous ones.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
