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Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
GE4 - Corrected impression of GE3
GE1a - Album German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Amended impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 166-167

Long accents in A

Short accents in FE (→GE,EE)

We consider both accents of A, although differing in shape, to be long accents due to their size (cf., e.g. the clearly smaller mark in b. 173). FE reproduced the accents as short (GE and EE did it in an even more pronounced manner).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw