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Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
EE1
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. 39-40

Different accents in A

Short accent in FC (→GE)

Short accents in EE

Long accents alternatively suggested by the editors

The question of type of accents written here by Chopin in A (→FE) – short or long – see bars 9-10. The missing accent in FC (→GE) in bar 40 is certainly a mistake – perhaps the copyist was not sure how to interpret the impressively written long accent in A.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Errors of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh