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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
CDP
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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  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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