It is difficult to say whether the earlier starting point of the octave sign in the editions resulted from a mistake or from a revision in GE. The mistake is supported by the absence of a corresponding correction in the recapitulation (bar 225), whereas the revision – by the pianistic ease of the changed version, in which the hand is to be moved not under the slur, but after the note provided with the staccato mark. Anyway, the A version does not contain a mistake, since this is how Chopin wrote this place twice – here and in bar 225. Such large intervals provided with a slur are to be found in other pieces by Chopin, cf., e.g. the Concerto in E minor, Op. 11, I mov., bar 391.
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issues: Errors in GE, GE revisions
notation: Pitch