EE1
Main text
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEFo - Forest copy
FEH - Hartmann copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2a - Altered impression of GE2
GE3 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 372-373

Slur in FE (→EE,GE1GE2)

Slur in GE3

Our suggestion

According to us, the varying ranges of the slurs in bars 373 and 377 may result from misunderstanding of the manner of encompassing the full rhythmic value of the last note with a slur ('slurs-tenuto'), used by Chopin on a number of occasions. The slurs visible in FE would be two attempts to adjust such slurs to the notes in the top voice. In the main text, we suggest reconstruction of such a notation in both bars. The slurs were unified also in GE3, which considered the version of bar 373 to be inaccurate. It can be regarded as an alternative attempt to interpret the slurs of FE.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions, Tenuto slurs

notation: Slurs

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Original in: New York Public Library at Lincoln Center