b. 206
The moment of beginning the hairpin in A intended by Chopin is unclear. The sign starts clearly before the bar line of bar 206, the first one on a new page, which suggests that it began still in the previous bar; however, it does not allow to determine the precise location of the beginning of the sign. GE1 (→FE→EE) considered it simply an inaccuracy, which could be right. GE2 adopted a solution similar to the one adopted to the main text – beginning of the sign after the last note in bar 205.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: GE revisions, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins