A
Main text
A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Later impression of GE2
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Second impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 92-95

Dynamic markings in A

GE1

FE

EE

GE2 (→GE3)

The editors' proposition

In A, both the cresc. in bar 92 and the  in bar 95 are entered after the 1st beat of the bar. However, the crescendo-marking dashes only reach the middle of bar 94 which, in the light of the later correction of FE, should be considered inaccurate notation. In GE1 (→FEEE) the indication cresc. was placed as early as the beginning of bar 92; that inaccuracy was corrected in GE2 (→GE3). In  EE, the full word broken into syllables was used instead of a customary abbreviation. In GE1 the dashes after the cresc are found - erroneously - only in bars 92-93, which Chopin corrected in FE by extending them to  in bar 95. That latest indication w GE2 (→GE3) was placed, in spite of A, at the beginning of the bar.

In the main text we give the markings of A with taking into account Chopin's correction from FE.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Inaccuracies in GE

notation: Verbal indications

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