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Op. 28 No. 4, Prelude in E minor

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
GE1
Main text
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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Slur from crotchet in As & GE

Slur from grace note in remaining sources

The slur of As begins more or less in the middle of the bar, so it can be interpreted as starting from the f1 minim. According to us, a slur of such a range concerned the initial version of the ending of the bar; following its deletion, it is only the a1 crotchet that remained, and the slur inevitably begins from it. A slur starting from the a1 crotchet is also included in GE; however, it is a result of a routine revision, adjusting the notation to certain general notation conventions. 

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Jan Ekier private collection, Warsaw