EE1
Main text
½A - Semi-autograph
A - Autograph of the piano part
Morch - Manuscript of the orchestra part
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Retouched impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 276-278

Slur in bar 278 in A (literal reading)

2 slurs in GE (→FE)

2 slurs in EE

Slur in bars 276-278 suggested by the editors

In A bar 277 is the last one on the page and it does not contain phrase marks. In turn, in bar 278 there is a slur suggesting a continuation from the previous bar. Therefore, it seems that Chopin forgot to write the initial part of the slur, most probably of the one with which he embraced that phrase in bars 128-130. This is the slur we suggest in the main text. In GE, next to the slur in bar 278, roughly reproduced, a slur of a similar range was added also in bar 277. If the implemented proofreading had been inspired by Chopin, which cannot be excluded, it would be a correction of an ad hoc nature rather than an intended variation of phrasing.

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See b. 40

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, EE inaccuracies, Authentic corrections of GE

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Biblioteca Civica Angelo Mai, Bergamo