FE1
Main text
AI - Working 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. 8

 in AI

4 accents &  in FE (→EE)

3 accents &  in GE

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The main text comes from FE (→EE). Lack of the last accent in GE may be a common error, however, it can also prove that the sign was added only in the latest proofreading of FE. In turn, the reason of proofreading could have been a distortion of the long accent on the last quaver in the bar by the engraver of FE (such a sign is visible in AI) – cf. e.g. the Etude in A minor, No. 2, bar 8. These kind of doubts are not raised by the oversight of  in this place, as it fits into a more general tendency of reducing the number of these indications in the printed version of the Etudes

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Errors in GE, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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