A
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. 148

Half-bar  in A

Whole-bar  in FE (→GE,EE)

 suggested by the editors

We interpret the notation of A as incomplete or perhaps erroneous. Chopin wrote a  only in the 1st half of the bar, on which the end of the line falls in A; perhaps he was convinced that the bar had already ended or simply forgot to write the ending of the mark in a new line. Anyways, the shape of the figurations in this bar suggests that the crescendo should be continued in the 2nd half of the bar and to the very end, since the topmost note falls only just on the beginning of the next bar (unlike in the previous two). Due to the above, in the main text we model the beginning of the mark after previous analogous bars; as far as the ending is concerned, we lead it to the end of the bar.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins, FE revisions, Inaccuracies in A

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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