FE4
Main text
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. 153-156

Three-bar long  in GC (→GE)

One-bar long  in FE1 (→FE2EE)

No sign in FE3 (→FE4)

The shorter hairpin in FE1 (→FE2EE) is probably erroneous – it reaches the end of the text's line, which makes an accidental oversight of the further part of the sign more credible (cf. the mistake of GE1 in bars 165-166). However, in the proofreading of FE3 (→FE4), instead of, as one could expect, adding the overlooked continuation of the sign, the already printed part was removed. Perhaps we are dealing with an unfinished correction – the engraver removed the existing sign in bars 153-154 to replace it with a new, narrower one, which would graphically suit the intended continuation in bars 155-156, which, however, was not performed. In any case, it seems to be highly unlikely that Chopin would have wanted to resign from indicating crescendo, so natural in this place, if we take into consideration the ascending progression and pedalling accumulating the C major chord over more than five octaves. Due to these reasons, in the main text we give the  sign written in GC (→GE). See also bars 158-160 and 161

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Muzeum Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa