The slurring in bars 416-424 quite significantly differs from the slurring of analogous bars 440-448 in FE. The first time, the slurs are present only in the R.H., and their range is always the same – to the quaver ending the 20-note-long semiquaver sequence. The second time, it is also the sequences in the L.H. that are encompassed with the slurs; however, they seem to be less careful: they reach the quaver only in one phrase; they end on the semiquaver that precedes it twice, whereas the last time, in bars 447-448, the slur is ambiguous. In addition, there are no slurs in the L.H. in the last two phrases.
In the main text, we keep the slurring of bars 416-424 in the R.H. part unchanged and unify the slurs the second time. In the L.H. part, we leave bars 416-424 without slurs, since the correct phrasing is indicated by the slurs of the R.H.; in one situation (bar 418), Chopin removed the slur in the L.H. (inaccurate) while proofreading FE. In bars 440-448, we unify slurs also in the L.H. after the slur in bars 442-444, compliant with the natural shape of the phrase.
In the remaining editions, except for GE3, it was generally the slurs of FE that were repeated; at the same time, a slur in the L.H. was added in 444-446. In GE3, slurs in the L.H. were added in all places; morevoer, in both hands, all longer slurs were shortened so that they do not encompass the quavers that end the phrases.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Source & stylistic information
issues: GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Slurs
