Main text
Main text
A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
IE - Italian edition
IE1 - First Italian edition
compare
  b. 32-35

8 short accents in A (literal reading→GEFE,EE,IE)

8 long accents in A, contextual interpretation

The marks in the form of accents, generally short, visible in A are mainly placed between the last two quavers of subsequent halves of bars, and this is how they were reproduced in GE (→FE,EE,IE), probably as short diminuendoes. In the main text we reproduce them as long accents over the 3rd and 7th quaver, which is consistent with the L.H. slurs and with one of the Chopinesque ways of marking such accents.
Similarly, in bars 36-39; see also bars 33-34.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

Go to the music

.