A1
Main text
A1 - Autograph fair-copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First 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. 67-68

Short accent in A1 (→FEEE) & GE2

 in GE1, literal reading

Long accent in GE1, possible interpretation

The interpretation of the mark of GE1, which resembles a long accent but goes beyond the bar line, is not obvious. One can interpret it as a short diminuendo hairpin, leading to  and corresponding to the  mark in b. 66. In the main text we give a short accent, introduced by Chopin in A1 (→FEEE), since, according to us, even if the mark in [A2], reproduced in GE1, resembled a long accent, it would have probably meant the same thing as the remaining accents in this section: see b. 60-64

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Pierpont Morgan Library, Nowy Jork