AI - Earlier autograph
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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. 29-30

Slurs in AI

Interpreted slurs in A (→GE1GE2)

Slur in CDP

Slurs in FE & EE

Slurs in GE2 (→GE3)

Continuation of the slur in A and in the remaining sources, except for AI, is an element of a broader change of the performance concept of this phrase, embracing also the changes of dynamics in this bar – see the adjacent note.

Beginning a new slur on the 4th beat in bar 29 is clearly written both in AI and A. It is unclear why this natural division was not included in CDP, FE and EE. In the case of editions, one has to take into account a possibility of Chopin proofreading of the slurring in the base texts, yet, according to us, it is more plausible that it was the copyists or engravers that did not understand Chopin's intention.

We consider the earlier ending of the slurs – on melodic notes – to be an inaccuracy of the notation of AI and A (→GE1).

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

notation: Slurs

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