FE1
Main text
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Retouched impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Changed impression of EE1
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  b. 5-6

 in FE, literal reading

in GE

 in FE (contextual interpretation→EE)

In FE (→GE) the  mark is placed only in b. 6, the first in a new line. However, the manner it was placed suggests that Chopin wanted it to begin earlier, probably similarly to the hairpin in b. 7-8. This is how it was understood in EE and this is the version we give in the main text. In turn, in GE the mark was considered to have been carelessly engraved, thus it was being gradually shortened and its starting point moved towards the 1st quaver in b. 6. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Inaccuracies in GE, Scope of dynamic hairpins, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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