EE1
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Atut - Autograph of first Tutti
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEFo - Forest copy
FEH - Hartmann copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2a - Altered impression of GE2
GE3 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 414

Wedge in FE (→EE,GE1GE2)

No mark in FEH & GE3

According to us, the articulation markings, i.e. the wedge on the 3rd beat of the bar and the slur, are wrong in the majority of the sources. It is indicated by a comparison with analogous bars 410 and 438, in which it is the bass note on the 2nd beat of the bar that is provided with a staccato mark, whereas the slur encompasses the next two crotchets. The scheme of the accompaniment, in which, after the detached bass note, generally sustained with pedal, the hand moves to the chord position (often broken or repeated) is one of Chopin's favourite procedures. The wedge was crossed out in FEH, in which a fingering was also added; a fingering that confirms the articulation markings we adopted. The entries were probably performed during lessons with Chopin or on the basis thereof. 

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, GE revisions, Annotations in FEH

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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