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AI - Working autograph
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. 1-19

 in A

 in FE (→GE,EE)

In A the  indication is written slightly later, so it could be considered to be valid only from the beginning of bar 1 or even to be referring to the bottom voice in the R.H. According to us, it is a manner of placing the indications within their range of validity and not at the beginning, sometimes used by Chopin. This is how it was understood in the editions.

List of performance indications present in AI in bars 1-19:
bar 1 (beginning of the piece) – Vivace,
bar 1-2 – long accents over the R.H.,
bar 5 – an accent in the R.H.,
bar 7 – accents in the L.H.,
bar 10-11 – slurs and accents in the R.H.,
bar 13 – an accent in the R.H.,
bar 16 – .
We do not signalise the absence of the remaining indications in the case it is the only difference between the sources; we also do not consider it as an equal version in the remaining cases. From the practical point of view it means that when AI is not mentioned in the text of the note, the discussed indication is absent in the autograph. 

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