GE1
Main text
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. 73

Wedge in A, literal reading

Dot in A, possible interpretation

No mark in FC (→GE) & FE (→EE)

It is uncertain which staccato mark Chopin meant here; it could have influenced both Fontana and the engraver of FE to overlook it. The mark is in the form of a wedge, but it may have resulted from the hand having been moved too quickly after the dot had been written down, which is indicated by the tilt of the bottom part of the mark. In the main text we suggest the literal interpretation, i.e. wedge.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE, Wedges, Errors of FC

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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