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Op. 26 No 2, Polonaise in E♭ minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
Main text
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FED - Dubois Copy
FES - Stirling Copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Revised impression of GE3
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
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Slur from semiquavers in A

Bar-long slur in FE (→EE,GE)

The slur of A, although quite clearly exceeding the notes it embraces, concerns, according to us, only the repeated f-f1 octaves. The whole-bar slur of FE (→GE,EE) is, therefore, almost certainly erroneous.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Inaccurate slurs in A, Embracing slurs

notation: Slurs

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