Issues : Embracing slurs

b. 74-75

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

Continuous slur in GC (→GE)

Separate slurs in FE (→EE)

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It is difficult to determine what led to the difference in slurring between GC (→GE) and FE (→EE). The notation of [A] could have been ambiguous, e.g. between the lines. In the main text we give the continuous slur of GC, since there is no visible musical reason to disrupt this rhythmically homogeneous, smoothly descending sequence.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Embracing slurs , EE inaccuracies

b. 157-158

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

2 slurs in GC (literal reading →GE)

Slur in FE

Slur in GC (contextual interpretation) & in EE

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Taking into account the versions of FE and GC, one may assume that the slur of GC at the end of b. 157 could have been added by Chopin. The aim of that change was undoubtedly a slur encompassing the entire three-quaver motif (as it is 4 bars earlier), which was guessed in EE (the correction could have even been introduced by Chopin in the Stichvorlage for EE). GE reproduced the notation of GC literally, i.e. as coinciding slurs.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , Embracing slurs , EE inaccuracies , Authentic corrections in GC , Uncertain slur continuation