b. 63
The long accent added by GE1 could be considered a revision or even Chopin's intervention were it not for the marking situated in the same place. The chord provided with this dynamic indication ends a long diminuendo (running from the beginning of this extended bar); therefore, emphasising it would be contrary to Chopin's clear idea, which was to attenuate the music. We assume a possible "symmetrical reflection" mistake – the accent that was supposed to be placed under the stem of the e1 crotchet after the minim chord was printed over the stem of the F-c fifth preceding that chord. Taking into account the above, we do not give this accent in the main text.
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issues: Long accents, Inaccuracies in FE, Errors in GE, GE revisions, EE inaccuracies, Authentic corrections of GE
notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins