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AT - Autograph of a fragment

AW - Presentation Autograph

CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka

GC - Gutmann's Copy

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. 3-4

		in AT
		No signs in AW
		in CDP
		in GC (→GE), FE & EE

In practice, the differences in the range of the dynamic hairpins, in spite of being quite significant, are of minimal influence on the interpretation of these signs. Lack of hairpins in AW may be a proof of Chopin's inadvertence rather than hesitation.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Chopin's hesitations

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina i George Sand, Valldemossa

Op. 25 No 2, Etude in F minor