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Op. 50 No. 3, Mazurka in C♯ minor

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GE1
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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. 64-65

Separate slurs in AI

Continuous slur in AF (→FE→EE) & GE

The division of the slur in AI could have resulted from the uncertainty about the combination of b. 64-65 and about the final shape of the melody in b. 65-68 – in the initial version of the L.H. part, there was no transitional F note, while in the alternative version of the melody, b. 65 opens with a repeated e2. Therefore, the combination of b. 64-65 in the rejected versions is not as smooth as in the final one.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw