Verbal indications
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b. 9-12
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composition: Op. 28 No. 8, Prelude in F♯ minor
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The missing dashes marking the range of crescendo is a frequent inaccuracy of Chopinesque first editions. In turn, it is more difficult to evaluate the extension of their range in FE (→EE). The reviser or engraver could have considered the markings in b. 12-13 ( category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Inaccuracies in GE , FE revisions |
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b. 24-26
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composition: Op. 28 No. 8, Prelude in F♯ minor
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In the main text we reproduce the range of cresc. marked with dashes in accordance with the notation of A (→FE→EE). Dashes running almost until the end of b. 26 in FC was an arbitrary decision of Fontana or perhaps a mistake – the dashes in FC end more or less in a place where they would have ended if they had been written in A a line lower. The omission of the entire indication in GE is a patent mistake. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Errors in GE , Fontana's revisions |
) to be a natural ending of the crescendo and assumed that the missing dashes were a result of the composer's inadvertence. However, that reasoning is not as obvious as it seems at first glance – after the ascending progression in b. 9-10, based on the f pedal note, the following one and a half bar brings rather a momentary respite due to the descending sequence of half-bar cadences. Due to the above reason, in the main text we keep the version of 
