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A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
IE - Italian edition
IE1 - First Italian edition
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Slur over 3 quavers in A (→GEEE,IE)

Slur over 4 quavers in FE

Due to asymmetrical alignment of the A slur with respect to the staccato dots, one could assume that it encompasses the entire 2nd half of the bar. However, according to us, Chopin almost certainly envisioned here a slur over the three quavers, as it was interpreted by GE (→EE,IE). The longer FE slur does not have to suggest that the FE editors had access to A, since engravers would often adjust slurs or dynamic hairpins to natural rhythmic groups, for example, groups of notes under one beam.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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