FE1
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GE - German edition
GE1 - First German Edition
GE2 - Later impression of GE1
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French Edition
FED - Dubois's copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English Edition
EE2 - Second impression of EE1
EE3 - Later impression of EE2
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  b. 20-21

Slurs in GE (→FEEE), literal reading

Slurs in GE (→FEEE), natural interpretation

Our proposition

Bar 21 appears at the beginning of the system in GE (→FEEE); this is most probably the reason why the notation of slurs at the juncture of bars 20-21 is unclear. The curved line running from f sharp2 in bar 20 seems to be a tie, yet its ending in bar 21 is missing. Instead, bar  21 contains a line that clearly suggests a continuation of some phrasing slur from bar 20; as a result,  a single phrasing slur from the minim f sharp2 to b sharp1should be considered the only natural interpretation of both those lines. Still, a comparison with similar bars 25-26 and 91-92 makes one conclude that the notation of bar 21 is most probably erroneous, and that Chopin did not intend the slurring in that fragment to differ from the slurring found in its later repetitions. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

notation: Slurs

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