The absence of the slur in the L.H. in A must be considered an inaccuracy of notation. Chopin may have wanted to add a slur in GE1, but only a fragment of it was printed in bar 269 – the slur suggests a continuation, yet in bar 270, on a new line, there is no continuation. Both in FE (→EE) and GE2 the slur was interpreted as embracing only three crotchets in bar 269. Moreover, EE added also an arbitrary slur from the last crotchet in bar 270 to the third third in bar 271. In the main text we suggest a slur analogous to bars 1-3.
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notation: Slurs