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Op. 28 No. 17, Prelude in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
FCI - Fontana's copy I
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 16

Long accent in A

No mark in FC (→GE)

Short accent in FE (→EE)

The overlooked accent is one of many oversights of Fontana in this Prelude – cf., e.g. b. 1-2 or 21.
As before, the clear long accent was reproduced in FE (→EE) as a short one.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw