AF
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. 68-69

Slurs in AI, probable interpretation

Continuous slur in AI, possible interpretation

Slurs in AF (contextual interpretation→FE) & GE1

Slurs in AF (literal reading) & GE2

Slur to bar 68 in EE

In AI the ending of the slur in b. 68 (at the end of the line) suggests continuation; however, a flat slur begins in the new line from the 1st note of b. 69, in which one can see either a continuation of the preceding one or a new slur. The beginning of the slur in b. 69 in AF is also unclear – a flat line gradually emerges over the b1 minim, hence one can assume that Chopin started writing it earlier. The slurs of FE were probably corrected from a continuous slur, and, although the final notation is imprecise, the division of the slur between the bars is unquestionable. The same slurs are included in GE1, and this is the version we give in the main text.
EE are devoid of the R.H. slurs from b. 69 to b. 92, which is probably an oversight. See the notes in b. 77 and 92.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in EE, Inaccurate slurs in A, GE revisions, Uncertain slur continuation

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Pierpont Morgan Library, Nowy Jork