EE
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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. 26-27

No indication in GC (→GE) & FE

in EE

Our variant suggestion

The dim. indication was probably added by Chopin in the base text to EE (another possibility – revision of the editor – seems to be much less likely). The absence of the indication in the remaining sources can be explained with Chopin's distraction, yet also with, e.g., a conscious resignation from a total assimilation of the performance of this fragment to analogous bars 45-48. Due to this fact, in the main text we leave the performance of this indication at the discretion of the performer.

The manner of writing the dim. and ritenuto indications – it concerns both bars 26-28 and 45-48 – does not clearly show whether the first of them is still valid in the area of validity of the second. According to us, the indications are to be considered independently – in the fragments marked with ritenuto one can continue diminuendo or not; one can even consider the use of crescendo.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

notation: Verbal indications

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