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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
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 16-17

Beginning of slur in A, literal reading

Direct interpretation of A (→FEGE,EE)

Contextual interpretation of A

The slur in A begins over the penultimate note in bar 16, yet Chopin undoubtedly thought of a3 as the first note under the slur and so it was recreated in the editions. According to us, it is, however, very likely that Chopin mistook the last group in bar 16 with the first group in bar 17, which also starts with a3. At the time of writing the slur, the composer, in haste, could have considered the beginning of the octave sign as coinciding with the beginning of the new phrase, which he probably wanted to embrace with the slur. 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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