GE2
Main text
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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We add a slur over the double-note chords written in A. In GE1 it was moved under the notes, the correct notation was reinstated in GE2 (→GE3) (→GE4). The double slur EE is probably a result of an editorial revision, and the lack of the slur in FE – an error.

The change made in GE1 is quite often encountered in first editions of Chopin. The engravers/revisers were mechanically using a rule, according to which a slur (and also an accent) should be placed on the side of the note's head. However, in such a situation as is described in the commented bars, it changes the sense of the slur: the slur over the R.H. may refer to the entire chord, including the L.H. and so it was undoubtedly meant by Chopin. The slur combining d1 with c1 concerns only those notes, potentially the double-note chord in the R.H.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Errors in FE, GE revisions

notation: Slurs

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