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Op. 25 No 5, Etude in E minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
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. 29-36

Slurs in FC (→GE) & EE

No slurs in FE

The absence of slurs over the entire eight-bar section can be the original version, left by inaccuracy – initially, Chopin could have considered this change of notation to be a sufficient signal of the change of the theme's articulation. 

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