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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. 24-25

Slurs in FC (→GE1)

Slur in FE

Slur in EE

Slurs in GE2 (→GE3)

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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See b. 4-9

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, EE inaccuracies

notation: Slurs

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