GE
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. 100-101

No sign in AI & EE

in AF

in FE & GE2

in GE1

 suggested by the editors (AF in bars 8-9)

We consider the  hairpin in AF to be inaccurate:

  • the mark ends clearly earlier than in the remaining sources, including in FE, in which it could have been added by Chopin, since it is absent in EE;
  • Chopin wrote a shorter mark in both autographs in analogous b. 8-9;
  • it seems that Chopin, who found it difficult to fit in all elements of notation in a number of places of this autograph, took the advantage of free space in this place – cf. the L.H. slur, certainly inaccurate, which reaches even further.

In this situation, in the main text we repeat the notation used in AI and AF in b. 8-9. It has the following advantages:

  • the conformity of two autographs practically guarantees that the notation reproduces the composer's intention precisely;
  • the range of the mark is a compromise between the versions of the range of all sources in the discussed place;
  • it ensures the homogeneity of the text of b. 8-9 and 100-101, identical in every respect.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins, Authentic corrections of FE, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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