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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
A
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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Long accent in AI

No sign in A (→CDP,GE)

 in FE & EE

The  hairpins must have been written in this form by Chopin in the base texts to FE and EE. The long accent in AI is certainly the original version of the dynamic indications – cf., e.g., bars 1-2.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Authentic corrections of FE, Authentic corrections of EE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa