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Op. 23, Ballade in G minor

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FE1
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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L.H. long accent in A

in FE (→EE)

R.H. short accent in GE

The typical long accent over the L.H. chord was reproduced by FE (→EE) as a short  hairpin under the R.H. part, correlated with the  in the previous bar. In GE, the mark was distorted to an even greater extent – it was provided with the form of a short accent under e3.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in GE, Inaccuracies in FE

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris