It is difficult to explain the difference in approach to long accents between bars 99 and 100, since in A the signs in bar 100 are not longer than the previous ones at all. Perhaps they key to solving the puzzle is the overlooked third accent: if initially GE1 overlooked all accents in this bar, Chopin, while proofreading the edition, could have added the first two, which, this time, were incorrectly reproduced as 
.
Compare the passage in the sources »
category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Errors in GE, GE revisions, EE inaccuracies
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins