GE2Ab
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1op - First German edtion of Op. 64
GE1Ab - First German edtion of Waltz in A♭ major
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2Ab - Second German edition of Waltz in A♭ major
GE3op - Corrected impression of GE2op
EE - English edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of EEW1
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  b. 16-22

Slurs in A, literal reading (→FEEE)

Slur in A (contextual interpretation), GE2op (→GE3op) & GE2Ab

No slurs in GE1op & GE1Ab

Due to the applied abbreviated notation of bars 17-31, it is not entirely certain how the slurs of A at the transition between bars 16 and 17 are to be interpreted. According to us, it is more likely that Chopin though about a continuous slur, which is indicated by the fact of combining slurs in A in analogous bars 124-125 (a respective change was introduced in later GE). Omission of the slur in GE1op and GE1Ab is a patent mistake.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Errors in GE, GE revisions

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowego Instytutu Fryderyka Chopina