A
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. 96

Pause in A (probable reading→GEFEEE)

Articulation sign in A (possible reading)

The sign concerning the 1st note in the bar has the form of a dash and a dot in A. The dash is not entirely straight, so that in GE (→FEEE) the combination was interpreted as a fermata. We adopt this interpretation to the main text:

  • Chopin wrote a slightly similar flat sign of fermata in bar 6;
  • Chopin did not question such an interpretation both in the proofreading (GE1 and FE) and in the pupils' copies.

However, according to us, it cannot be excluded that Chopin meant here another combination of tenuto and staccato marks, as in bars 18 and 86.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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