FE1
Main text
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
EE - English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of [EE2]
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 80-81

Literal reading of slur in A (→FEGE)

Slur in A, possible interpretation, slur in EE

Probable interpretation of slur in A

The ambiguous ending of the slur of A in bar 80 was reproduced without any change in FE (→GE). According to us, there are two ways of interpretation of the slur:

  • taking into account the fact that the slur reaches equally far beyond the first and last notes in the bar, we can assume the notation of EE to be accurate;
  • the dynamic indications of A () prove that Chopin treated the chord at the beginning of bar 81 as an ending of the previous phrase, which is naturally corresponded by the slur led exactly to this chord.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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