Issues : Errors of FC

b. 39-40

composition: Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor

Different accents in A

Short accent in FC (→GE)

Short accents in EE

Long accents alternatively suggested by the editors

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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.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Errors of FC