A1
Main text
Afrag - Autograph fragment
A1 - Autograph fair-copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second French edition
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 56

in A1

Long accent in FE1

No sign in GE

Short accent in EE & FE2

Our variant suggestion

According to us, the mark in A1, although it could be considered a long accent (as it was interpreted in FE1), could be a diminuendo, hence we leave it with its actual length. In the main text we give the mark in brackets, since it is absent in GE, from which  in the next bar comes; moreover, it is also uncertain whether Chopin would have considered it compliant with the dynamic markings of GE.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in FE, EE inaccuracies

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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