Main text
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. 128-131

2 slurs in AF, contextual interpretation

Continuous slur in FE (→EE)

Slur in GE

In AF b. 129 opens a new line, and the slur that starts at the beginning of this bar does not match the slur at the end of b. 128, which suggests continuation. The continuous slur in FE is one of possible interpretations, yet a comparison with analogous b. 37 shows that Chopin probably meant the slurs to coincide, which we give as the main text. The fact that the slur beginning in b. 129 is absent in GE is either an earlier version written in [AG] or a mistake of the engraver.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Uncertain slur continuation

notation: Slurs

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