AI
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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. 38-40

cresc. - - in AI

 in A, contextual interpretation

 cresc. in FE (→GE)

 cresc. in EE

Cresc. - - in AI is the original version, replaced in A with more precise indications. According to us, minor graphic differences in the notation of crescendos in A – both  and cresc. – are of random nature and are not supposed to suggest any differences in the interpretation of these indications. The engraver of FE (→GE) considered such a characteristic for Chopin imposition of the  sign and the cresc. indication as an unnecessary complication. In EE the range of the  signs in these bars was homogenised.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Inaccuracies in FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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