Different source slurring of these bars does not prove, according to us, various versions of phrasing, yet it only confirms difficulties with which one is faced at the time of interpreting slurs in Chopin autographs. In EE, the fact of embracing the entire discussed fragment with one slur, unconvincing from the piano and musical point of view, probably results from the panache, with which the slur was written in the manuscript (autograph or Gutmann's copy), which was supposed to start over the 2nd quaver in bar 25 – if its beginning falls already on the 1st quaver, the engraver could have assumed that it is about the link with the preceding D-G
slur. In turn, in FC (→GE1), the division of the slur at the transition between bars 25-26 results from the probably too literal interpretation of broken slurs due to the change of clef and direction of beams (cf. the notation of FE, most probably yielding Chopin's intention better). Due to the above reasons, we consider the slurs introduced in GE2 (→GE3) to be correct.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: GE revisions, EE inaccuracies
notation: Slurs