The missing second staccato dot in FE (→EE) may have resulted from an oversight by Fontana in [FC] or by the engraver of FE. It is also likely that Chopin added dots in A after [FC] had already been finished, and then added only the first one while proofreading FE1. The absence of both dots in EE2 must be an oversight, while the slur in GE2 – an arbitrary revision to make the articulation of the 1st crotchet resemble the articulation of the subsequent crotchets in this phrase. In the main text we suggest the dots of A (→GE1) and two further ones, modelled after the more accurate notation of the sources in analogous bars.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions
issues: Errors in FE, Errors in EE
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins