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A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
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  b. 63-64

Slur in b. 63 in A, literal reading

Slur to b. 64 in GE & FE (→EE)

In A the slur ends abruptly at the end of bar 63. In this bar, however, the slur line is dashed due to the running-out pen, hence it is uncertain whether the visible ending of the slur was the one intended by Chopin. In bar 64, at the beginning of a new page, there is no ending to the slur. Nevertheless, both GE and FE (→EE) led the slur to the beginning of this bar, which means that both readers of A – the copyist and the engraver of GE – assumed that the slur in bar 63 suggested that it should be continued. In view of the doubts concerning the reliability of the A notation, in the main text we give its interpretation adopted by the editions.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Uncertain slur continuation

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa