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EE1

Main text

GC - Gutmann's copy

EE - English edition

EE1 - First English edition

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 - Second German edition

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b. 619

Short accent in EE & GC (→GE)

Long accent in FE

For the main text we adopt the FE long accent. Chopin many times emphasised a falling minor semitone motif, e.g. in Polonaise E, Op. 22, b. 119.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor