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Issues : No pedal release mark

b. 93-96

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt I

No markings in GC (→GE) & FE (→EE)

Pedalling suggested by the editors
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It is hard to assume whether Chopin forgot to finish marking the pedalling here or whether he only generally indicated the need to use pedal in this fragment. Due to the fact that the indications are more accurate for the second time (bars 221-224), in the main text we signalise them already here. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Editorial revisions

issues: No pedal release mark

b. 95

composition: Op. 10 No 8, Etude in F major

No pedalling in A

 in FE (→GE,EE)
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Chopin added the  mark in a proofreading of FE (→GE,EE).

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE , No pedal release mark

b. 95

composition: Op. 30, Mazurka in D♭ major

in FC (→GE) & EE

No sign in FE

Our variant suggestion
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As was the case with the fermatas, both pedalling versions may be authentic – both the standard FC version and the single  mark in FE are often used by Chopin in the endings. Another argument against a possible mistake ( overlooked in FE) or a revision ( added by the copyist – cf. the ending of the Prelude in B, Op. 28 No. 11) is the fact that both versions correlate with the presence of fermatas – pedal release is marked in FC, in which there are no fermatas. In this situation, in the main text we suggest a variant solution.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: No pedal release mark

b. 96

composition: Op. 21, Concerto in F minor, Mvt I

 over R.H. in A (→GE1→FE)

 under L.H. in EE & GE2

 [] over R.H. suggested by the editors
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The  sign is placed in A (→GE1→FE) over the R.H., since the pedal here is supposed to, above all, preserve the sound of the g2 minim. Chopin used a similar notation in the Prelude in F major, Op. 28 No. 13, bars 33-35. The revisers of EE and GE2 considered this suggestive notation to be unworthy of keeping. In the main text we add the overlooked by Chopin  sign.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , No pedal release mark

b. 101

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt II

No sign in FE (→EE,GE1→GE2)

 in GE3

[] suggested by the editors
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Like in analogous bars 50-52, the pedal release moment from bar 99 we suggest (compliant with the indication introduced in GE3) allows for maintaining the dying sound of the broadly broken G major chord until the end of the phrase. In this case, one can also, according to us, imagine an even longer pedal hold, e.g. to the end of the 3rd beat of bar 101 or even to the end of bar 103. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions , No pedal release mark