EE1
Main text
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. 116-119

Two-note slurs in A (→GE)

Three-note slurs in FE (→EE)

It is difficult to say whether the A slurs are inaccurate or whether Chopin indeed wanted to encompass with them only the pair of chords at the end of bars 116-118. The comparison with analogous bars 283-286 suggests that the discussed slurs are inaccurate, since two out of the three slurs there clearly go beyond the bar line, indicating the A chords as their final notes. Due to the above, in the main text we give the FE (→EE) slurs, considering them a contextual interpretation of the A notation. The GE slurs are based on the literal interpretation of A.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Pitch

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Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw