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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. 55-57

Wedge in AI

Dots in A

Wedges in FE (→GE1GE1aGE2), GE5 & EE3 (→EE4)

No marks in EE2

Wedge in GE3 (→GE4)

In A it is not entirely clear with which staccato signs – dots or wedges – Chopin provided the and 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

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