GE1
Main text
A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Later impression of GE1
GET - Toruń copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
FEFr - Franchomme copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English Edition
EE3 - Later impression of EE1
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A dot in A (→GE)

Absence of any sign in FE (→EE)

The version of A (→GE) does not give rise to any doubts of either source-related or musical nature. As for the version of FE:

  • it is not certain whether the dot was actually removed and whether it was done upon the composer's request; the trace visible there could result from a printing mistake or a misunderstanding that occurred during the proofing;
  • that type of dot-slur combination in which the dot relates to the first of the two slurred notes is practically absent from piano literature due to the fact that the execution of such articulation would be quite unnatural.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw