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According to us, it is an oversight that is a more likely explanation for the absence of the mezza voce indication in FE rather than a possible Chopin's correction, whose effect would be a total resignation from indicating dynamics at the beginning of the piece.
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category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Inaccuracies in FE
notation: Verbal indications