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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
AI
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. 42-43

Accents in AI

Big noteheads in A (→GE), FE & EE1

Big noteheads & accents in EE2 (→EE3)

Eventually, Chopin marked the emphasising of the bottom notes of the figuration, doubling the melody, indicated in AI with accents, with bigger note heads. Convergence with the accents of EE2 (→EE3), added undoubtedly by the reviser (cf. bars 40-41), is accidental.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: EE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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