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Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

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b. 205

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

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GE1 overlooked the part of the R.H. slur falling on this bar. The mistake was corrected in GE2.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 207-208

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

Slurs in GC (→GE)

Slur in FE (→EE)
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It is hard to determine how the difference in the slurring between FE and GC occurred. The new slur over bar 208 seems to be added, perhaps by Chopin, yet it could have been an ad hoc correction of a too short, or perhaps poorly visible, slur. In the main text we give the slur of FE, compatible with the prevailing phrasing. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

b. 210

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

Shorter slur in GC

Longer slur in FE (→EE) & GE2

No slur in GE1
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The second R.H. slur in GC encompasses only two crotchets, which certainly exemplifies numerous inaccuracies committed by the copyist in notating slurs. The slur was omitted in GE1 (cf. bars 212-214), and reinstated in GE2 as a three-note-long one, analogous to the neighbouring slurs.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 212-214

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

7 slurs in GC

6 slurs in FE (→EE) & GE2

3 slurs in GE1
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These bars, as well as a few next ones, are a characteristic example of Gutmann's inaccuracy as a copyist. The slurs are drawn so inaccurately that the engraver of GE1 simply omitted a few of them, not knowing what to do with them. Our suggestion of their interpretation is only a certain idea of the actual notation. We do not try finding sense in this slurring – there is no doubt that Chopin's intention were regular, three-crotchet-long slurs, conveyed by FE (→EE) and correctly interpreted in GE2.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE , Inaccuracies in GC

b. 215-218

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

Slurs of different lengths in GC

7 slurs in FE1 (→FE2)

8 slurs in FE3 (→FE4) & EE

3 slurs in GE1

Slurs of different lengths in GE2
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Same as in the previous bars, the slurring of GC is very careless in these bars. GE1 printed only three slurs, which was completed in GE2, almost literally reproducing GC. The remaining editions contain correct slurs, only FE1 (→FE2) overlooked the slur at the transition between bars 217 and 218.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , Inaccuracies in GE , GE revisions , Authentic corrections of FE , Errors of GC , Authentic corrections of EE