AI
Main text
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. 55

Probable long accents in A

Possible short accents in A (→FEGE) & EE3 (→EE4)

Both accents – on f1 in the R.H. and on 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

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