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. 98

The sign added in FED over the g2-d3 quaver probably means staccato, which is indicated by the vertical line separating this quaver from the next semiquaver. The sign looks like a wedge, however, one has to remember that Chopin teaching entries are often careless and they usually deviate from the standard forms of signs. Moreover, the line, doubling the function of the rest, proves that the aim of the entries was most probably a correction of an erroneous performance; in addition, this kind of corrective entries are sometimes exaggerated. Due to this reason, in the main text we suggest a milder version of staccato.

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See b. 98

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Annotations in FED

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw