EL
Main text
A1 - Working autograph
CJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
CK - Kolberg Copy
CB - Balakirev Copy
EL - First edition
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  b. 16

No markings in A1 & CB

Pause in CK & EL

Slur & long accent suggested by the editors

The indications concerning the a1 note at the beginning of the bar raise serious doubts due to the sources based on [A2] being incompatible – CJ and CK. In the main text we give an interpretation of the notation of CJ, in which both visible elements – slur and short  hairpin – can be quite easily and reasonably interpreted as a tenuto mark and a long accent. In turn, in CK the similarly placed yet much smaller elements actually resemble a fermata (this is how they were reproduced in EL), which is completely unjustified in this place.

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See b. 6-7

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Errors in CK

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina, Warszawa