The dolce indication was added in FC by Chopin on (within?) the 
mark. According to us, it may have resulted from a non-simultaneous entering of those indications: if, e.g. Chopin had decided to add a mark after having written dolce, in order to show that the hairpin refers to the R.H. melody, he would have had to place it just like that (a hairpin written on a stave can be illegible). It is proven by the notation of an analogous place in b. 213-214, in which the composer right away planned the indications in such a way so that they do not overlap. Therefore, in the main text we move dolce to above the hairpin. In GE1 it was placed under the mark; we do not consider this difference to be important enough to regard those versions as variants (in subsequent GE the conflict was resolved by shortening the hairpin accordingly).
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issues: Authentic corrections of FC
notation: Verbal indications