Deletions made Chopin rewrite the part of the L.H. on an adjacent stave. In the new notation of the 1st half of the bar, the slur embraces only three quavers (starting from the second). Above the deleted original version there is, however, a slur embracing four quavers, so theoretically one can ponder which one (or maybe both?) is valid. The legible original notation shows that the changes concerned the bass note only, which was initially an A
, which explains the fact of embracing the entire figure with one slur. After moving the bass one octave lower, one can take for granted that Chopin left the longer slur by inadvertence only. This is how it was interpreted in GE2, yet in GE1 (→FE→EE) a half-bar slur was adopted.
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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: GE revisions, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Slurs