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Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

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b. 23

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

No sign in AI, A & FE (→GE,EE)

Arpeggio sign in FED

Our variant suggestion
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The sign in shape of a slur, indicating an arpeggio, was added by Chopin in FED.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 25

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

Long accent in A

 in FE (→GE1,EE)

 in GE2 (→GE3→GE4→GE5)
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It is the longest out of three evident long accents written in A in bars 21, 25 and 27. In FE (→GE1,EE) it was reproduced as three-semiquaver-long  hairpins. In subsequent GE, the sign was extended in order to cover the entire length of the semiquaver beam (such kind of adjustments of slurs and hairpins to regular rhythmic groups was a characteristic manner of German engravers, both Kistner and Breitkopf and Härtel). Cf. bar 27.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

b. 25-29

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

No fingering in AI & A (→FE→GE)

Variant fingering in EE
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The fingering of EE, allowing for two possibilities in bar 25, is an addition by Fontana.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions

b. 27

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

No marks in AI, A (→FE→EE) & GE2 (→GE3→GE4→GE5)

Staccato dots in GE1 (→GE1a)
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The staccato dots in GE1 (→GE1a) are certainly a mistake, corrected in GE2 (→GE3→GE4→GE5).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE

b. 27

composition: Op. 10 No 3, Etude in E major

g in AI, A (→FE→EE,GE1→GE1a→GE2) & GE5

e in GE3 (→GE4)
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The characteristic error of GE3 (→GE4) was corrected only in GE5 (at the same time, committing a rhythmic error). 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , Terzverschreibung error