FE1
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. 51-63

 &  in A

FE (→GE,EE

Our suggestion

In A the dynamic marks –  and particularly  – in bars 51-53, 60 and 62-63 are written only on the 4th beat of the bar, sometimes on  marks. According to us, it is an example of use of an earlier notation convention by Chopin – see bars 10-12. In FE (→GE,EE) only one of the indications was reproduced in accordance with A (bar 52), some of them were overlooked (in separately discussed bars 61-62) and the remaining ones were arranged in such way so they concern entire octave motifs pursuant to the currently binding notation rules. Cf. the remarks concerning  marks in bars 51-63.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE, Centrally placed marks

notation: Verbal indications

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