In A the beginning of the slur falls on under the minim of the top voice. In spite of that, even without comparing it with the analogous places, Chopin's intention is clear due to the shape of the slur: the last crotchet of the bar is the only reasonable candidate to be the first note encompassed with a slur. It is less obvious in FC, in which the slur begins just before the rest on the 2nd beat of the bar; in a different context, one could have pondered whether it was not supposed to run from B at the beginning of the bar. However, that does not justify the erroneous slur of GE1, which begins from f
in the previous bar. It is likely that the engraver interpreted the slur correctly, yet he mistook the bars, which end with the same note. In turn, the slur in EE, which did not have access to any of the manuscripts, runs from B. The easiest explanation for that situation is a mistake of FE, corrected later, i.e. the inaccurate slur of A could have misled the engraver of FE, which was reproduced in EE and corrected in the last phase of proofreading of FE (although there are no visible traces of such a correction on the available photocopies of FE copies).
category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources
issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Errors in GE, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FE, Inaccuracies in FC
notation: Slurs
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