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Op. 25 No 4, Etude in A minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
A
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. 48

Slurs in A, literal reading

Slurs in FC (→GE) & EE

Slurs in FE

When interpreted literally, the slurs of A do not include the a2 crotchet, which resulted in an erroneous, as it seems, interpretation in FE. In the main text we give the undoubtedly correct slurs of FC (→GE) and EE. After all, it is highly likely that the slur in bars 47-48  in FC was extended by Chopin.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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