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A - Autograph

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 - Another copy 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. 19-20

		dim.- - in A
		dim. in FE
		dimin. in GE
		dim.- - in EE
		dim.- - suggested by the editors

The effect of diminuendo, indicated by Chopin in these bars, results from the previous or at the beginning of bar 19. As in the main text we adopt after FE and EE, we give dim. also on the basis of these sources (at the end of bar 19). In A Chopin moved this indication half a bar later (to bar 20); this correction could have been performed still before introducing instead of .
The total or partial lack of dashes marking the range of diminuendo is almost certainly a result of an inaccurate reproduction of notation of the handwritten base texts by the engravers.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Corrections in A

notation: Verbal indications

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Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major