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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. 411-413

Slurs in A, literal reading

Slur in A, contextual interpretation

Slurs in GE1

Slurs in FE (→EE)

Slurs in GE2

A includes separate slurs in bars 411 and 412, probably due to the crossed out fragments in bar 411. The fact that Chopin did not intend to divide the slur in this place is supported by the slurs in all three repetitions of this fragment (bars 419-421, 451-453 and 459-461). The ending of the slur in bar 412 is also inaccurate, since it suggests leading the slur to bar 413, yet it does not go beyond the bar line. A comparison of analogous bars enables us to interpret this detail correctly. The versions of GE1 and FE (→EE) follow from an inaccurate reproduction of the base texts. In GE2, the final fragment separated with a slur, corresponding to the figures in the previous bars, is completely arbitrary.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

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

notation: Slurs

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