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Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESf - Schiffmacher copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 203-208

No markings in A (→FEEE)

cresc. - - in FC

cresc. in GE1

 cresc. - - in GE2 (→GE3)

In the main text we give the cresc. - - - indication added by Chopin in FC. The omitted dashes in GE1 are an inaccuracy, quite frequently encountered in Chopinesque first editions; the marks were added in GE2 (→GE3).

In the entire section (b. 197-249) Chopin added numerous performance markings to the copy, mostly dynamic ones. They are similar to those he wrote for the first time (b. 65-117), yet not identical, which we preserve, just like other minor melodic and rhythmic differences. In GE2 (→GE3) the revisers tried to unify them in many places, e.g. by adding a  in b. 203 and moving cresc. to b. 204 or by adding  marks in b. 235-238. There is a similar situation in b. 648-695, which were briefly marked in the manuscripts as repetition of b. 197-244.  

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FC

notation: Verbal indications

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