The notation of the accents in the 1st half of the bar is not entirely clear. In A the first accent has arms of different length, so that it is uncertain whether a long or short sign is to be considered here. The analogy with similar motifs at the beginning of bars 48-49 and 54-55 encourage us to consider it a long accent (our main text). On the other hand, none of the aforementioned bars includes an accent on the 2nd beat, which undermines the power of this analogy.
In addition, the aim of providing the 2nd crotchet with two accents is also unclear, which was not included in GE (→FE→EE1→EE2). Moreover, in the majority of the editions, both accents were assigned to the L.H., which is most probably a result of inaccuracy of the engraver of GE1 (corrected in GE2, where the accents were placed in the middle between the staves). The changes of font and number of accents introduced in EE are certainly inauthentic.
If the version with harmonic accompaniment was chosen in the previous note, one of the versions without accents for the L.H. (second or sixth) is to be selected here.
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notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins
