In 3 out of 4 similarly structured bars (bar 86 and 89-90), Chopin wrote in A a slur combining the top note of the 1st chord with the 1st quaver in the 2nd half of the bar. The absence of a similar slur in bar 85 is a patent inaccuracy – 3 bars featuring slurs are written in one line, whereas the one without the slur – in the preceding line (another factor could be the 6th quaver in this bar having been written on the bottom stave, which hampered the leading of the slur). In the main text, based on the principal source (A), we do add this slur. The fact that in GE1 the slurs are placed under the bottom L.H. notes resulted from routine procedures aimed at standardising the notation (changes of stem direction and moving accidentals to the notehead side). On the other hand, 4 slurs in FE (→EE) placed under the L.H. part probably resulted from Chopin's proofreading (perhaps already in [FC]) rather than from revision, since the slurs in analogous bars 172-173 and 176-177, in which A is devoid of slurs, were placed in the same manner. In the main text we provide the probably authentic FE slurs as an option (in brackets), since none of the sources includes slurs in both positions at the same time in these places.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions
issues: Inaccuracies in GE, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Slurs