GE1
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. 8

2 slurs in A

Slur in A (interpretation suggested by the editors) & EE3

Slur in A (other interpretation)

Slur in GE (→FEEE1EE2)

Numerous corrections on the 3rd beat of the bar (erasures and deletions) forced Chopin to write a group of three semiquavers on an adjacent stave. The group is embraced with a slur, which almost certainly means that it is a triplet. On the main stave, however, there is another slur in this place, starting from the previous semiquaver. The slur was most probably written earlier and concerned one of the deleted versions of this place. In this situation it is uncertain whether the new slur (over the triplet) was, according to Chopin, supposed to complement the previous (as a slur separating an irregular group) or whether Chopin inadvertently left a longer slur and the slur over the triplet was supposed to replace it. According to us, the latter is the most likely (cf. bar 13), hence we give this version in the main text. An alternative interpretation assumes a later addition of the longer slur as the final one. This is generally the way it was understood in GE (→FEEE1EE2), although due to a different interpretation of the rhythm, the slur embraces there the entire 3rd beat of the bar.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions, Inaccuracies in GE, Inaccurate slurs in A

notation: Slurs

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