EE2
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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. 25

Long accent in A

 in FE (→GE1,EE)

 in GE2 (→GE3GE4GE5)

It is the longest out of three evident long accents written in A in bars 21, 25 and 27. In FE (→GE1,EE) it was reproduced as three-semiquaver-long  hairpins. In subsequent GE, the sign was extended in order to cover the entire length of the semiquaver beam (such kind of adjustments of slurs and hairpins to regular rhythmic groups was a characteristic manner of German engravers, both Kistner and Breitkopf and Härtel). Cf. bar 27.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Royal Academy of Music, London