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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1a
Main text
AI - Earlier autograph
A - Autograph
CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected reprint of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected reprint of GE1
GE1b - Flawed impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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No sign in AI & CDP

Long accent in A, literal reading

 in A (contextual interpretation →GE1→GE1a)

 in FE

 in EE & GE2 (→GE3)

The sign in A may be considered as a long accent, yet according to us, it is much more likely that Chopin had diminuendo hairpins in mind, closing the dynamic wave in this bar.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Scope of dynamic hairpins, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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