FE1
Main text
Afrag - Autograph fragment
A1 - Autograph fair-copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second French edition
FED - Dubois copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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  b. 55-57

2 slurs in A1

Continuous slur in FE

Slur from f1 in bar 57 in GE1

Probable slurs in [A2], our alternative suggestion

Slur from d1 in bar 57 in EE

Slur to e2 in bar 55 in GE2

Except for the versions of GE1, GE2 and EE, which are clearly erroneous and which overlooked some of the curved lines, there are most probably three authentic versions of slurring for these bars: A1[A2] and FE, proofread by Chopin. We do not know [A2] directly, yet one may closely reconstruct it on the basis of GE1 and the remaining authentic versions: since there are no notes that would not be encompassed with a slur in A1 and FE, it was most probably also the case of [A2], which means that the continuation of the slur from b. 53-54 overlooked in GE1 led to the first crotchet in b. 57. This version may be considered an equal variant with respect to the main text, which we hold for the version of FE, the latest of the three authentic ones, introduced probably instead of the version of A1 (perhaps incomplete, which may be indicated by the text of EE).

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors in GE, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Fryderyk Chopin Museum, Warsaw