FES
Main text
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

No markings in A (→FCGE, →FEEE) & CGS

& slur in FES (possible reading)

Our alternative, variant suggestion

FES contains vague signs in this bar, out of which two seem to have musical sense – a slur starting under the F minim and a  hairpin of a similar range. In the main text we do not include any of them:

  • the slur, basically doubling the printed phrase mark, is clearly a teaching remark, reminding of the need to hold a full rhythmic value of this note;
  • the interpretation of one of the lines as a  hairpin is subject to a certain degree of uncertainty – this line, together with the vertical line, may also be a diagonal cross, so typical of Chopinesque teaching entries.

As the  reasonably complements the  indication from the previous bar, we suggest the version including this sign as an alternative solution.

Compare the passage in the sources »

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Annotations in FES

notation: Articulation, Accents, Hairpins

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