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A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESf - Schiffmacher copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 348

Slur from f in A (→FE,FCGE)

Slur from B in EE

In A the beginning of the slur falls on under the minim of the top voice. In spite of that, even without comparing it with the analogous places, Chopin's intention is clear due to the shape of the slur: the last crotchet of the bar is the only reasonable candidate to be the first note encompassed with a slur. It is less obvious in FC, in which the slur begins just before the rest on the 2nd beat of the bar; in a different context, one could have pondered whether it was not supposed to run from B at the beginning of the bar. However, that does not justify the erroneous slur of GE1, which begins from f in the previous bar. It is likely that the engraver interpreted the slur correctly, yet he mistook the bars, which end with the same note. In turn, the slur in EE, which did not have access to any of the manuscripts, runs from B. The easiest explanation for that situation is a mistake of FE, corrected later, i.e. the inaccurate slur of A could have misled the engraver of FE, which was reproduced in EE and corrected in the last phase of proofreading of FE (although there are no visible traces of such a correction on the available photocopies of FE copies).

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Errors in GE, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FE, Inaccuracies in FC

notation: Slurs

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