EE1
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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  b. 172

Slur in A

No slur in FE

Slur in GE & EE

The slur of A is written over the notes and it embraces the entire motif, together with the minim. It is also poorly visible due to the ending ink and the upcoming word acceler. It explains the absence of the slur in FE, as its oversight by the engraver or even considering it to be deleted by the overwritten indication is highly likely. The slur was completed in the remaining editions on the basis of analogy with similar bars earlier and bar 173. In the main text we give the slur in this form – under the notes and embracing the semiquavers only, as Chopin, while writing A, probably erroneously wrote the original form of this sign. It is proved by the clear slur in the next bar, as well as the notation of bar 20, in which the composer deleted the longer slur over the stave, replacing it with a shorter one under the notes.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE, Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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