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GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 52

in GE

 in FE (→EE)

This motif appears four times in the course of the Polonaise: in b. 26, 52, 78 and 285. In GE the ornament over the 1st note is always a , whereas in FE (→EE) it is a  in b. 26 and a  in the remaining ones. It is unclear how this difference came about; however, it does not seem that Chopin would change the ornament mark on purpose, particularly since in this context both versions of notation are allegedly synonymous (it is a rule for shorter values in faster tempi in the Chopinesque notation). Taking into account the above, to all bars we adopt the consistent notation of GE, based on [A].

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