EE1
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. 290

Long accent in A

No mark in GE1 (→FEEE)

 in GE2

The missing accent is certainly a mistake of GE1 (→FEEE). The engraver might not have been sure to which note the shifted accent applied (it was one of the ways of marking long accents in Chopin's earlier autographs – cf. bar 230).

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Errors in GE, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, Bergamo