The repetition of bars 1-24 is marked only in EF, yet the adopted there notation with the use of two voltas is essentially unjustified and certainly does not correspond to Chopin's notation. In spite of that, the repetition itself of the initial section of the piece seems to correspond to the composer's intentions. The need for such a repetition is clearly indicated by the form of other polonaises by Chopin, both the unpublished and published during Chopin's life. Therefore, it suggests that the notation of the remaining sources may be inaccurate in this respect. An imprecise notation of the repetitions is not a rare situation in the autographs of such dance forms as polonaises or mazurkas, cf., e.g., the Polonaise in A
, WN 3, the Polonaise in C
, Op. 26 No. 1 or the Mazurka in A, WN 45. According to us, the visible in JC and PE double bar line after the 5th quaver in bar 24 could, in Chopin's intentions, determine exactly the repetition of the entire previous part of the Polonaise, written in the simplest possible way. Taking into consideration the above mentioned arguments, we adopt the repetition into the main text.
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