Issues : Long accents

b. 27

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

Long accent in GC (→GE1)

No mark in FE & EE

Short accent in GE2 (→GE3)

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The long accent, present only in GC (→GE1), could have been added there by Chopin. In GE2 (→GE3) it was replaced with a standard, short accent.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Long accents , GE revisions , Authentic corrections in GC

b. 35-36

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

Accents in GC (→GE)

No marks in FE & EE

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The accents on the 4th beat, present only in GC (→GE), were most probably added in the copy by Chopin.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Authentic corrections in GC

b. 43

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

No mark in GC (→GE)

Long accent in FE

Short accent in EE

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In the main text we give a long accent after FE. An accent – short – is also in EE, which means that the sign was most probably added by Chopin in the base texts to these editions or that the copyist accidentally omitted it. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

b. 67

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

Long accent in GC, FE & EE

Short accent in GE

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In the main text we give the long accent written in GC and printed in this form also in FE and EE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE

b. 81

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

Long accent in GC

No mark in FE

Short accent in GE & EE

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It is not entirely clear which type of accent Chopin had on his mind here. According to us, an inaccurate reproduction of the long accent in EE is, however, more likely than the reverse situation – the copyist's writing a long accent in place of the short sign in [A]. The sign in GC, very characteristic for Chopin's handwriting, could have been written with his hand. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents , Inaccuracies in GE