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Op. 10 No 5, Etude in G♭ major

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
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 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 69-70

Accents in A, literal reading

 in FE (→EE,GE1→GE2)

No marks in GE3 (→GE4→GE5)

Accents in A, contextual interpretation

According to us, both the accents of A and the clearly longer  marks in FE (→GE,EE) imply the same – long accents. It is proved by the marks added by Chopin in a proofreading of FE in analogous bars 73-74. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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