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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. 335-336

No slur in A

Tie in GE1 (literal reading→FEEE)
& GE2

Slur in GE1, contextual interpretation

Due to pitch errors both in A and GE2 (in bar 335) as well as in GE1 and in the remaining editions (in bar 336), it is difficult to evaluate the authenticity of the curved line appearing in the editions and to unravel its meaning. It combines notes at the same pitch level – b1 in GE1 (→FEEE) and c2 in GE2 (literal interpretation) – which confers it the nature of a tie. According to us, the curved line could have been added by Chopin together with the proofreading of the erroneous trilled note in bar 335 or by the engraver of GE1 together with the superfluous change of the crotchet in bar 336. Taking into account that in GE1 these bars are on different pages, it is more likely to relate the curved line to a change performed on the same page, hence in bar 335, particularly since in bar 336 GE1 does not include the ending of this curved line at all. It leads to a version with a slur linking the trilled b1 with the c2 crotchet, to a certain extent analogous to the ending of the exposition (bars 179-180). In face of source and interpretative doubts concerning the curved line, in the main text we leave the version without it, written in A.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

notation: Slurs

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