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A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESf - Schiffmacher copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
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  b. 348

  in A (→FEEE) & GE2 (→GE3)

No markings in FC (→GE1)

The pedalling of b. 346-357 was written by Chopin twice, both in A and FC. There are two explanations for that situation:

  • the copyist forgot to write the markings present in A, and Chopin added them later;
  • while writing A Chopin did not mark the pedalling in these bars (he could have considered the markings of analogous b. 338-340, written a line higher, to be the model, which he would often apply in other compositions, e.g. in the Etude in A Major, Op. 10 No. 10, b. 5-6,) and added them only while reviewing and completing both manuscripts.

According to us, the second possibility is much more likely, which is proven by analogous b. 448-459, written in A without pedalling. A glance at the layout of A and FC even allows us to make an assumption that Chopin could have been adding the markings in question parallelly in both manuscripts, since he entered pedalling into three bars at the beginning of the second line of A (b. 346-348), repeating the markings of b. 338-340, which are a line higher. Then he repeated it in FC – he copied the markings from the beginning of the top line to the next one; however, he did not notice that in FC the top line begins from b. 339, as a result of which it includes only two bars with pedalling. Such a scenario explains the absence of pedalling markings in b. 348 in FC. The above conclusion, even if accurate, should not be applied to all markings added in A and FC by Chopin, since other places suggest that the manuscripts were rather not completed simultaneously.

In GE2 (→GE3) the pedalling was added on the basis of a comparison with the analogous bars.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: Corrections in A, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FC

notation: Pedalling

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Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw