AsI
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AsI - Working autograph of score
A - Autograph fair copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE3 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FESB - Later French edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
compare
  b. 112

in A

cresc. in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)

The absence of the  hairpin in the editions does not seem to be accidental. The engraver of GE1 most probably wanted to make his job easier by eliminating superfluous marks, doubling the verbal indication, according to him. Further on, over the course of the Variations, such combinations of cresc. or dim. with a  or a  hairpin, very often used by Chopin in this and other compositions, were generally simplified in this way – cf. b. 119, 274, 301, 306, 335. On the other hand, in b. 295 the  hairpin was left, but the verbal indication was omitted (cresc.).

The range of the  mark in A is unclear, since the bottom arm is evidently shorter than the top one. In this case, we decide to the advantage of the top, longer arm, which was probably written first.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins, GE revisions

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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