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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notation: Slurs