Rondo Capriccioso (Mendelssohn) - Does anyone know?

Does anyone know why some editions have an A Major chord at measure 134 and some have A minor? I did a bit of research but would love an answer from folks on here who know more than I. 

My take:

Many European players seem to have the same edition that contains A Major. It makes more sense as an A min chord. I've seen French players play Major, Asian players play Major, etc. but the chord does, in fact, seem to be a minor chord in the earliest editions. It is an A min in August Fraemcke's edition, Clemens Schultze's Braunschweig edition, while being *A Major* in B. Schott's Söhne edition (1886). The answer would seem to lie later in the piece, when the motif occurs in octaves in the left hand, with arpeggios in the right. The C# doesn't appear until the end in the l.h. melody, which seems to confirm that the chord should be A min at mm.134. At any rate, the Schott edition is later and I'm guessing the inaccurate one.

Thoughts?

 

I also noticed that the Tonebase edition, while helpful to have below the lesson, is definitely not one to play from, as it is riddled with errors. 

 

I asked this question several months ago, so I thought I'd try again and see if anyone has any thoughts now?

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    My Henle edition has an A major chord.  In the comments, it states that the A minor chord found in "several later editions" was not authorized or checked by Mendelssohn.

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