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