The endings of the slurs in bar 94 and 98 look similar in A – the slur clearly encompasses the last octave in the bar, yet it does not go beyond the bar line. Therefore, one could understand the decision of the engraver of GE, who led the slurs in both places to the 1st crotchet in the next bar, since he interpreted the A slurs as pointing. According to us, however, Chopin was thinking about different kinds of range for these slurs, corresponding to the different structure of the main melodic line – in the first phrase the last note (g-g1 octave) is played at the end of bar 94, whereas in the second one the g1-g2 octave ending the phrase occurs already in bar 99. In the main text we give such a differentiated interpretation of these slurs, also adopted by FE (→EE). This interpretation is also supported by the A notation in analogous bars 260-262 and 264-266 – in the former the slur encompasses bars 260-261, whereas in the latter Chopin extended the slur of similar range to the beginning of bar 266. The slur in bars 260-261, placed in a similar manner to the one in bars 93-94, was recreated in GE in accordance with our interpretation, which proves that the engraver evaluated such situations randomly.
See also bars 100-101.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Inaccuracies in GE, Embracing slurs
notation: Slurs