In the entire section, Chopin wrote only one slur in the part of the L.H. in A, in bar 146. The fact that he then resigned from repeating the slurs written in the R.H. is proved by the notation of bar 160, opening a new page in A: in the part of the L.H. one can see there a deletion of a slur reaching the a
minim and suggesting continuation from the previous bar. Therefore, the decision to add slurs, which were introduced in the entire section in EE (apart from bar 157) and GE2, was arbitrary, and it almost certainly does not correspond to Chopin's intention. Moreover, the added slurs differ between EE and GE2, since each of them copied the slurs of the R.H., which in EE generally correspond to the slurs of GE1, whereas in GE2 – to the slurs of A (cf. bars 152, 156, 157-158 and 159).
In the main text we preserve the notation of A. We discuss more complex situations from the point of view of sources in bars 146-148, 148 and 154 and 151 separately.
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