mUltimate Chopin

Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
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. 46-47

  & dim. in AI

  in A (→CDP,GE)

  in FE & EE

The dynamic indications of AI represent their previous edition. In the remaining sources, one can see the final concept, while the versions of FE and EE, in which the  sign is shorter and  falls on the end of diminuendo, seems to be more natural in this context.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris