AI
Main text
AI - Working autograph
AF - Autograph fair-copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First 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. 37-39

Slur in AI

2 slurs in AF

Slur in FE (→EE) & GE

The slur of AI encompasses the top stave without distinguishing particular voices. The slurring of AF emphasises the quasi-polyphonic texture, yet in the next bars (on a new line) Chopin did not continue the slurring of the inner voices. It was probably one of the reasons why the bottom slur in FE (→EE) was omitted – the engraver could have had doubts where and how it should be led. The relationship between [AG] and GE could have been similar, since the fact that the top slur starts only just in b. 38 suggests that another slur began in b. 37 in [AG] (see also b. 129-131).
In the main text we give the slurs of AF, whereby we interpret the bottom one to be reaching the e1 minim in b. 39 after the AF slur in analogous b. 129-131.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations

issues: Errors in FE

notation: Slurs

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