GE2
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
compare
  b. 233-240

 signs in A

3 signs in GE1 (→FEEE)

4 signs in GE2

In A the  signs in bars 233, 235, 237 and 239 start more or less in the middle of the 2nd group of semiquavers, and they end more or less in the middle of the last one. Although the beginnings do not raise any doubt, in the case of the endings, the notation is, according to us, inaccurate – the virtuoso flourish and brilliance of these figures requires leading the crescendos to the accented climaxes at the beginning of the subsequent bars. This is how the endings of the hairpins were reproduced in the editions, except for bar 239, in which the sign was overlooked by the engraver of GE1 (→FEEE). In GE1 (→FEEE), the starting point of the signs was reproduced accurately only in bar 233; in the next two ones the signs start in the middle of the bar. GE2 includes the notation adopted in the main text.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Errors in GE, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa