FE1
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FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FEO - Orda copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESf - Schiffmacher copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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Long accents in FE

Short accents in GE & EE

In EE the accents in the first four bars, just like in the practically entire piece, are short. It is an arbitrary change of the revisers. Long accents, most probably written by Chopin in [A], are present here only in FE. The first three accents of GE introduce a certain ambiguity, since their typeface is slightly different (they are narrower) than of the remaining marks in this source – perhaps they are also supposed to be interpreted as long.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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