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Op. 10 No 2, Etude in A minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
CLI - Copy by Linowski
Ap - Presentation autograph
FE - French edition
FEcor - Chopin's FE proof
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - Second impression of [EE1]
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 18

  in Ap

FE (→GE,EE) 

Our suggestion

In the main text we give the length-wise harmonised pair of   hairpins written by Chopin in FEcor. In Ap there is a striking imbalance between the half-bar-long  hairpins and the  sign, which looks like an accent. In the editions Chopin's indications were clearly extended.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: The University of Chicago Library, Chicago