In the 1st half of the bar the sextuplet is not marked in A1, neither with a digit nor a slur; however, nothing indicates that Chopin could have meant another rhythm. These elements are also absent in CK, which is almost certainly an oversight of the copyist, whose attention was taken by the need to correct the erroneously written first 5 notes of this sextuplet. In turn, it is uncertain how the oversight of all slurs in EL occurred – see b. 5-6.
Kolberg also overlooked the markings in the 2nd half of the bar, confirmed by CJ – staccato dots and the slur over the last beat of the bar. It could have influenced the creation of an arbitrary rhythm and slurring of CB – clearly incomplete slurring of CK and division of the 3rd beat of the bar, musically unjustified without authentic articulation, suggested a possibility of mistakes and inaccuracies in this copy.
The most significant difference appears at the end of this bar – in A1 the 4th beat includes only 5 notes, since there is no e3 between d
3 and f3. In the main text we give the later 6-note version on the basis of the most accurate and almost certainly authentic notation of CJ.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: Balakirev's revisions, Inaccuracies in CK
notation: Rhythm