A1
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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. 68

No mark in A1 (→FEEE)

Long accent (?) in GE1, literal reading

Long accent on 2nd beat in GE2

Short accent on 3rd beat suggested by the editors

Just like 7 next accents in b. 69-75, the mark in GE1 was added by Chopin in the proofreading or still in [A2]. Its placement must be inaccurate: there are no doubts that it is the 3rd and not the 2nd beat that is to be accented, yet GE2 understood it the other way round (with accent on the 2nd beat). According to us, the size of the mark is also unreliable (cf. the note in b. 60-64), hence in the main text we give a contextual interpretation thereof.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Authentic corrections of GE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Pierpont Morgan Library, Nowy Jork