According to us, the virtuoso panache and brilliance require rather accents than diminuendos, hence in the main text we interpret all marks of A as accents (long and short). The marks printed in GE (→FE→EE), even longer than in the notation of A, hinder the interpretation of a possible intention of the composer even more. Shift of the accent at the end of bar 485 must be an inaccuracy of the engravers of GE1 and FE1.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in GE, Inaccuracies in FE, Errors in GE, EE inaccuracies
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins