GE2
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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. 62-64

3 long accents in A

1 long accent in FC

3 short accents in FE (→EE)

1 short accent in GE1

in GE2 )→GE3)

Out of the three accents visible in A at the beginning of subsequent quaver motifs, it is only the third one that was repeated in FC. It can be explained by them having been added in A later or, which seems more likely, by the copyist's distraction. It is also unclear which accents Chopin meant: taking into account the whole-bar  hairpins in similar motifs in b. 53 and 55, we consider long accents to be more likely.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Errors of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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