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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. 4-5

Long accents in A, probable interpretation

Short accents in A, possible interpretation

Short accents in GE (→FEEE)

In A it is unclear what type of accents Chopin meant on the 4th beat of these bars. According to us, the use of long accents is more likely, which is indicated by both the shape of the sign in bar 4 and the placement of the sign in bar 5: this kind of short, yet shifted signs are sometimes to be found in Chopin's autographs, cf. e.g. Ap in the Etude in A minor, Op. 10 No. 2, bar 22, 27-29, 3245-46. In the editions the accents were reproduced as short; moreover, they were moved between the parts of both hands – the latter could have been indicated by Chopin in the proofreading of GE1.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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