When interpreted literally, the dim. abbreviation fills an entire bar in A. It resulted in a difference in the placement of the indication between FC (→GE) and FE (→EE). According to us, the manner in which it was written down suggests that it is related to the 3rd beat of the bar, hence in the main text we prefer the placement proposed in FE (→EE). However, those editions overlooked the dashes marking the range of the dynamic change; we add them after A.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Errors in FE, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Verbal indications
