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According to us, the slur of A is doubly inaccurate:
- in the authentic layout, Chopin was unable to encompass the 1st half of the bar with a slur, hence he used a practically equivalent, simplified notation;
- The ending of the slur clearly suggests that it should be continued (at the end of the line of the text), yet there is no ending in the next bar, which is a frequent occurrence in Chopinesque manuscripts. The fact that the literal interpretation of this notation adopted in the editions is wrong is proven by the same situation in the R.H. part, in which, however, the unequivocal slur in analogous b. 45-46 allows us to settle the doubt in favour of a slur led to the beginning of b. 48.
In the main text, we suggest a reconstruction of Chopin's alleged intention based on the above conditions.
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions
issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Uncertain slur continuation
notation: Slurs