GE1
Main text
AI - Presentation autograph
A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE3 - Revised impression of EE1
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  b. 10-12

Slurs in AI

Slurs in A

Different reading of A (→GEFEEE)

Our suggestion

Slurs—and other performance markings—differ in AI from the later A version. In A Chopin wrote down two slurs (no account taken of a slur linked with the triplet—see below) but placed the beginning of the second one in such a way that it may be regarded as he would like to link it to the first. It was thus understood in GE (→FEEE) which give one slur. Starting a new slur after a pause which stops the flow of music seems more natural.

According to the General editorial principles, p. 16, in the main text we omit a slur over the triplet in bar 10. We also supplement a slur ending overlooked in A (→GEFEEE) in bar 12 (2a volta).

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Triplet slurs

notation: Slurs

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