AI
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AI - Earlier autograph
A - Autograph
CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected reprint of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected reprint of GE1
GE1b - Flawed impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 1

In both autographs the moment of starting the slur is not entirely clear. In the case of AI we can rely only on a photography, hence, there is no certainty whether all details of the original are clearly visible on it (it is possible that, e.g., the initial fragment of the slur was written with such a delicate line that it is invisible on the photography). According to us, in both cases there is no doubt that, as far as the shape of the slur is concerned, Chopin wanted to begin the slur in the most natural way possible in this context, i.e. from the beginning of the phrase, hence from the beginning of bar 1 in AI and from the upbeat in A (this is how it was interpreted in GE). Such an interpretation of A is confirmed by the slurs of FE and EE, based on other manuscripts.

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See b. 1

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Pointing slurs

notation: Slurs

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