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Op. 10 No 12, Etude in C minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
A
Main text
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
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
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
EE - English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of [EE2]
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 2-4

No marks in A

 signs in FE

Accent &  in GE & EE

Accents suggested by the editors.

The  marks, added by Chopin probably in a proofreading of FE (→GE,EE), are certainly meant to be long accents and this is how we give them in the main text. In bar 2 the length of marks in GE and EE corresponds quite well with the size of Chopin's long accents, although most probably by accident.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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