Main text
Main text
AI - Working autograph
AF - 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. 174-176

Long accents in AI & AF

Short accents in FE (→EE)

Short accents in GE

Long accents suggested by the editors

In both preserved autographs the accents are clearly closer to the bottom stave. According to us, it does not mean that it is only the two bottom notes of the chords performed by the L.H. that should be accented, which could have attenuated this dramatic culmination in  dynamics. (Chopin might have wanted to emphasise g1, to which the bass voice in the preceding progression was led.) Due to the same reason, it is difficult to assume that the accents under the R.H. part visible in GE could correspond to Chopin's intention; however, it is certain that the notation of [AG] did not suggest that the L.H. be accented. In this situation, in the main text we place the accents in the middle, in accordance with FE (→EE).

AI and AF feature long accents, which was not taken into account in any of the editions.

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

issues: Long accents, Placement of markings

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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