The meaning of the 3 slurs/ties in bar 239 visible in A (→GE→EE) is unclear, since they are not continued in the next bar, which opens a new line. One can see them as "tenuto-slurs", sometimes found in Chopin's autographs or as unfinished ties (to e
1 and c2) and an articulation-motivic slur (the third slur, the middle one). According to us, the second possibility is more likely – overlooked endings of the ties and the slur – and this is the version, introduced also by FE and IE, that we provide in the main text. An alternative suggestion would be a version of notation facilitating the interpretation, in which the middle slur was omitted, suggesting that a1 should be tied as well.
category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions
issues: FE revisions, Uncertain slur continuation, Tenuto slurs,