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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. 39

		No markings in AI
		in CDP
		in A
		in FE
		in EE
		in GE1
		in GE2 (→GE3)

It is hard to state which of the differently placed marks of different length is closest to Chopin's intention (see the note to analogous bar 37). In this situation, in the main text we suggest – similarly as in that bar – a compromise solution.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Scope of dynamic hairpins, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major