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 – b
1 in GE1 (→FE→EE) 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