Both accents – on f
1 in the R.H. and on c in the L.H. – seem to be longer in A than their counterparts in the previous bar (as well as the majority of other accents in bars 54-59). The difference was not reproduced in the editions, it is also unclear whether Chopin actually wanted to differentiate the accents. In the main text, we give the long accents, taking into account also the undoubtedly long accent in the L.H. in AI. Cf. bar 54 and 55-56.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins