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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. 8-9

New slur from 2nd quaver in AI & GE

New slur from 1st quaver in AF, literal reading

Overlapping slurs in FE (→EE)

In AF both the ending of the slur in b. 8 and the beginning of the slur in b. 9 are written inaccurately, as a result of which each of the given versions may be considered an interpretation of this notation. According to us, the latter is to be interpreted as beginning from the 1st quaver of the bar, which is indicated by the similar yet more accurate versions of notation of AI and AF in analogous b. 100-101 (in AF the version prior to combining the slurs). To the main text we adopt the version of FE, perhaps proofread by Chopin (the first slur having been extended). The version of AI and GE may be considered an equal variant.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Chopin's hesitations, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw