The adjacent endings of the slurs at the beginning of bar 73 are so close to each other in A that it cannot be ruled out that Chopin wanted to combine them. On the other hand, if this had been the case, he could have simply drawn one slur (under the notes) or add a second one, also under the notes, to emphasise their continuous nature. Therefore, the difference in the position of the slurs suggests the solution adopted to the main text, that is 2 overlapping slurs. This is also confirmed by the distribution of voices – the crotchets in bar 73 enter as a new, third voice.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources
issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, GE revisions
notation: Slurs