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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
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
EE - English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of [EE2]
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 5-7

Accents in A

FE (→EE)

GE1 (→GE2)

GE3 (→GE4)

In a proofreading of FE (→EE) Chopin reduced the number of accents in these bars, removing the accents at the beginning of the 1st and 3rd three-note groups of quavers. The change, together with a relevant correction of bars 1-4, homogenised the accentuation of the entire 1st eight-bar section of the Etude. In GE – probably due to an accumulation of mistakes – there are 4 accents in bar 6 and then only one in bars 5 and 7 (the accent in bar 5 was overlooked in GE3 and GE4). See also bar 8.

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See b. 1-4

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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