GE2
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A - Autograph
FE - French Edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German Edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Second, revised impression of GE2
GE4 - Third impression of GE2
EE - English Edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Later impression of EE1
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In A one can see corrections of slurs, however, it is unclear whether Chopin wanted to combine or separate them. According to us, the most probable order of Chopin's actions are as follows:
– writing the end of the slur on c2 (without the part in bold text),
– attaching this end to the next slur led to bar 46 (or 44),
– separating the slur by adding two facing downward slurs, clearly thicker endings.
The separated slurs appear in EE and GE2 (→GE3GE4), the continuous one – in FE. The slur in GE1 is incompatible with the notation of A and is certainly an error.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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