FESB
Main text
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
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  b. 371

3 wedges, 2 dots in A

6 wedges in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)

3 wedges, 3 dots, our alternative suggestion

In the main text we reproduce strictly 5 differentiated staccato marks written in A. The version of the editions most probably resulted from a double revision of GE1 – the marks having been standardised (see bars 271-272) and a wedge having been added over the 6th quaver. Leaving the last quaver without a mark can actually be considered Chopin's oversight, hence the addition of the wedge, judging from its different shape, introduced only just in the stage of proofreading GE1, can be seen as Chopin's intervention. The use of a wedge instead of a dot would be then a compromise taking into account the reality of an already printed proof copy including wedges only in this bar.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, Wedges

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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