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Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
A
Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana'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. 8

 in A (→FE)

No sign in FC (→GE) & EE

Our variant suggestion

It is unclear why the  sign visible in A (→FE) was neither in FC (→GE) nor in EE. It could have been Fontana's oversight in FC and a similar inaccuracy in the base text to EE or in the very edition. It is also possible that Chopin added this sign in A already after having prepared the copy. According to us, crescendo, although not necessarily, is not contrary to the previous dynamic nuances, hence in the main text we leave its inclusion at the discretion of the performer.

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See b. 2-4

category imprint: Differences between sources

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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