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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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b. 26-27

		No signs in AI & A (→CDP,GE)
		in FE
		in EE
		suggested by the editors

The dynamic hairpins of FE and EE were most probably added by Chopin still in the copies, being base texts for these editions. Thus it is difficult to state whether it is EE with a pair of signs that is later or FE with only. In the main text we generally adopt the indications of EE, as being the most complete; we modify only the range of the first sign (in bar 26) on the basis of FE, considering the interpretation of the manuscript by the engraver to be probably inaccurate (cf. even shorter, compatible signs of FE and EE in bar 27).

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FE, Authentic corrections of EE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major