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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE3
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 mark in AI, CDP & FE

Long accent in A & GE2 (→GE3)

 in EE

Short accent in GE1 (→GE1a)

In GE1 (→GE1a) the undeniable long accent of A was reproduced as short. In the second German edition (GE2 and GE3), the sign was slightly extended, hence we assume that the edition includes a long accent, in accordance with A. It is hard to state to what an extent the  hairpins visible in EE faithfully reproduce a message from Chopin, therefore, in the main text we adopt the accent written in A.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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