GE1
Main text
½A - Semi-autograph
A - Autograph of the piano part
Morch - Manuscript of the orchestra part
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Retouched impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 261-263

cresc. - - in A

cresc. in GE & EE2 (→EE3)

No indication in FE (→EE1)

In the main text, we give dynamic markings in bars 261-267 after A. Different markings appearing in GE are almost certainly a creation of a foreign hand:

  • the random nature is revealed by the oversight of the dashes marking the range of cresc. from bar 261 and accents in bars 265-266 and the change of  to  in bar 267;
  •  at the end of bar 265 could have been erroneously drawn from the double bass part in Morch;
  • the change of  to  in bar 264 was probably performed in order to coordinate the preceding cresc. with the following .

FE (→EE) generally repeated the markings of GE – except cresc. in bar 261, which is absent in FE (→EE1) and which was added in EE2 (→EE3). The absence of this indication in FE may be simply a mistake of that edition; however, it is also possible that it was initially absent also in GE1, in which it was added – probably by Chopin – in the last phase of proofreading (such a version of events explains the difference in the placement of cresc. in GE1 with respect to A).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Errors in FE, Errors in GE

notation: Verbal indications

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