EE1
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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  b. 43

 A more probable reading of A

GE (→FEEE)

The notation of A is not clear: the sign out after  looks like a long accent and, due to very disorderly arrangements of the R.H. notes, it reaches up to the 5th semiquaver with its right end. In such a situation it is not surprising that in GE (→FEEE) it was interpreted as .

An argument against associating the length and the musical sense of the discussed sign with the semiquavers written above it in  A  is the appearance of the combination of  and evident accents in the neighbouring bars 42 & 44, especially in the twin bar 42, where the accent is only slightly shorter than the one discussed here.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh