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Op. 38, Ballade in F major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
A - Autograph
GC - Gutmann's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FE3 - Corrected impression of FE2
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 197-201

No slur in A (→EE,GC→GE)

Slur in FE

The L.H. slur added in FE is one of a few elements indicating a perfunctory revision (by the editor, Fontana, Chopin?) of FE1. We give it in the main text because this phrase echoes the beginning of the Ballade, where parts of both hands were provided with slurs by Chopin.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: FE revisions

notation: Slurs

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Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw