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FC - Fontana's Copy
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. 81-82

 in FC (→GE)

 in FE

 &  in EE

The moment in which , written by Chopin in bar 82 in FC, is to be placed is not entirely clear. The sign is placed in the middle of the bar, however, at the same time it seems to fill it entirely. The interpretation is facilitated by the visible deletions in FC – initially, bars 81-82 were filled with the cresc. indication, led from  at the beginning of bar 81 to  in bar 83; Chopin deleted all these indications and wrote  only in bar 81 and a new  in bar 82. In this situation, the most logical solution seems to be an assumption that the culminant dynamic indication is to be placed at the end of the preceding it  sign, hence at the beginning of bar 82.

The missing  hairpins in FE could have been linked with the accents in the R.H., however, according to us, it is rather an inaccuracy of notation. The whole-bar hairpins in EE can, in turn, result from an inaccurate interpretation of the range of the sign towards the abbreviated notation of these bars in the base text.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE inaccuracies

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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