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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. 53-56

No marks in A (→FEEE)

4 staccato dots in FC

Dot in bar 53 in GE

It is difficult to say what Fontana's motivation was when he was providing 4 subsequent L.H. chords with staccato dots, which are absent in A. One of the possibilities is a misinterpretation of the notation of A – in b. 54-55 under the quaver flags one can see the protruding endings of the stems of the chords with typical, small hooks, which are a consequence of the act of writing: the hand moves to the place where the next element of notation will be written, but the pen is detached from the paper too late. The hooks constitute small protrusions that can be regarded as dots from a distance. GE reproduced only the first of those dots.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE, Fontana's revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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