In A it is not entirely clear with which staccato signs – dots or wedges – Chopin provided the A and E quavers in the middle of bars 44 and 57. In FE (→GE,EE) they were reproduced as wedges (in EE2 both signs were overlooked, while in GE3 and GE4 – the one in bar 57), yet, according to us, it is much more likely that Chopin had dots in mind. Cf. bars 58-60 where in similar motifs in A there are undoubtedly dots. In AI the signs are only in bars 57 (and 58) and they are undoubtedly wedges. However, it has to be emphasised that even the relatively accurate indications of AI, as e.g. in bar 43, were then changed by Chopin. See also bar 56.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Errors in EE, Errors in GE, Wedges
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins