According to the editors, the sign in A (→GE1→GE2) is entered imprecisely because it includes a rest during which a crescendo cannot be started. In the main text, we give it a scope analogous to the next such sign. A similar interpretation is used in FE and EE, as well as in FESB, in which, however, the sign is reversed (diminuendo instead of crescendo). It's hard to say whether this was an intentional change or a mistake. On the contrary, in GE3 the sign was slightly extended, which was probably a revision.
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issues: EE revisions, Scope of dynamic hairpins, GE revisions, Sign reversal, FE revisions, Revisions in FESB, Errors in FESB
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins