GE3
Main text
AI - Earlier autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EEW - First English edition
EEC - Later English edition
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  b. 102

No dots in AI

L.H. staccato in FE (→GE1,EE)

Staccato in both hands in GE2 (→GE3)

Staccato in both hands suggested by the editors

In the final version of the ending of the Mazurka, Chopin marked the L.H. fifths with staccato dots. However, there are no doubts that it is also the R.H. crotchets that are supposed to be performed in this way, hence the absence of dots for the R.H. chords is either a result of carelessness of the engraver of FE1 or an oversight by Chopin. In the main text we add dots; a respective addition was also introduced in GE2 (→GE3).
If the initial version of the ending is chosen, the variant with dots shall not apply.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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