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Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
Main text
Main text
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's Copy
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. 16

Slur in A, literal reading

Slur in A, contextual interpretation (→FE)

Slur in FC (→GE) & EE

The shorter slur of A (→FE) was extended in FC to the end of the bar. It is hard to suspect Fontana of such an arbitrary decision, hence it is almost certainly a Chopin correction. It allows us to consider the wedges present only in FC (→GE) to be most probably authentic.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections of FC

notation: Slurs

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