FE1
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As - Autograph sketch
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
CGS - Copy by George Sand
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1(
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 17-18

slentando in A (→FE) & CGS

slentando in FC

slentando in GE

slentando in EE

In A Chopin started writing the indication slentando at the end of b. 17, just after the last quaver in that bar. In FC the beginning of that indication occurs slightly earlier, and the handwriting is more condensed, as a result of which, in GE, in which b. 18 opens a new line, slentando was divided into 2 parts; moreover, it was moved further to the left. In FE the entire word was placed in b. 18, which, according to us, better conveys the notation of A. That notation, although not entirely accurately, was also reproduced in EE.
Fortunately, the placement of this indication, although problematic for editors, does not make a huge difference in practice.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

notation: Verbal indications

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris