The ties sustaining c1 or c do not appear in the sources at all – neither here nor in the reprise (bars 220-222), nor in the ending (bars 265-266). It remains in a clear opposition to bars 12-14 and 200-202, differing only in the mode (G major and not F minor), in which the sustention of analogous d1 or d notes is apparent (in spite of single, accidental oversights). Therefore, on the basis of the sources one has to assume that in these pianistically almost identical figures (in each of the three-chord motifs the difference concerns only one note – b(1) or a(1)), Chopin imagined the performance of the F minor chords differently than the ones in G major. Due to this fact, in the main text we leave the source version. On the other hand, the pianistic issues argument for a unified performance of all these places, both in terms of arpeggios of the tenth chords and sustention of the common note, as it was clearly marked in the R.H. Therefore, in all analogous situations, we give an alternative suggestion with a sustention of c1 or c.
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