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FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Retouched impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
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EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 41-42

No slurs in FE (→GE)

Whole-bar slurs in EE

Slurs suggested by the editors

The missing L.H. slurs in these bars must be considered an inaccuracy of notation. However, it is not entirely clear how it could be corrected:

  • Copying the slur from b. 40 seems to be the most natural solution, which we suggest in the main text. Slurs of such a range can also be encountered in b. 26 and 28;
  • However, the beginning of the slur in b. 40 could have been reproduced inaccurately in the sources – the vast majority of such figures are encompassed with one slur from the 1st note of the bar (cf., e.g. b. 38-39). Whole-bar slurs were added in the discussed bars in EE;
  • It is also likely that Chopin meant slurs beginning after the bass B note, like in b. 44-46. Slurs running from the semiquavers are also in b. 64 and 66.

A similar situation can be found in b. 185-186.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Bodleian Library, Oxford