mUltimate Chopin

Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FC
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. 50-51

Slurs in A (→FC)

Slur in FE & EE

Slurs in GE

In the face of the notation of A, the fact of combining the slurs in FE and EE may be considered to be justified, however, it is most likely that Chopin's intention – the tenuto ending of the slur in bar 50 – was interpreted correctly in FC.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, Tenuto slurs

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa