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GC - Gutmann's Copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second impression of FE
FE3 - Third impression of FE
FE4 - Fourth impression of FE
FESch - Scherbatoff Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected reprint of GE
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE
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  b. 21-22

 in GC (→GE) & EE2

No sign in FE (→EE1)

Our variant suggestion

The sources include two clearly different sets of dynamic indications in bars 21-24:

  •  in GC (→GE) and
  •  and cresc. in FE (→EE1).

The chronology of the versions cannot be determined in an irrefutable manner, as the preserved sources reveal no visible traces of corrections, as far as the discussed matter is concerned. The most likely possibility seems to be a later addition of  and cresc. in the form of complement of [A] (→FE) already after GC have been prepared and this is the version, defining the next pair of dynamically contrasted bars (cf. bars 17-20), that we consider to be the basic one. However, due to the fact that  in bar 21 can also be imagined as a sign complementing  and  (so it was interpreted in EE2), in the main text we suggest it in a variant form.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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