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Op. 25 No 8, Etude in D♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
EE1
Main text
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. 25-27

decresc. - - in A

 & decresc. in FE

 & decresc. in EE

decresc. in GE1

decresc. - - in GE2 (→GE3)

 i decresc. - - suggested by the editors

Both basic sets of indications – decresc. in bar 26 in A and GE and  in bars 25-27 and decresc. in bar 27 – are certainly authentic, yet it is unknown which of the versions is later. In the main text we give the differentiated indications of FE and EE, in the shape transferred by FE (we add dashes marking the range of decresc. after A, as omitting them is one of the most frequent inaccuracies of the first editions, which is proved by, for example, GE1 in this place).

 

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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