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Issues : No pedal release mark

b. 540-543

composition: Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor

Pedal up to bar 542 in A

No markings in FC (→GE1) & GE3

only in FE (→EE)

Pedal up to bar 543 in GE2
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In the main text we give the pedalling of A, the only irrefutably authentic. The missing pedalling in FC (→GE) may be a result of an oversight of the copyist: overlooked slurs suggest distraction. It is also likely that Chopin added it in A after having prepared FC. The missing  mark seems to be an oversight of the engraver of FE. The oversight can result in a long, more or less four-bar pedal, to which this virtuoso passage in loud dynamics prompts. Such a pedalling was indicated – arbitrarily – in GE2 and removed in GE3. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE , GE revisions , No pedal release mark , Errors of FC

b. 572

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

No  ​​​​​​​in FE

​​​​​​​ in GE

​​​​​​​ in EE

[​​​​​​​] suggested by the editors
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The  mark, overlooked in FE, was added in the remaining editions, although its absence does not have to be considered a mistake – cf. e.g. the Waltz in C​​​​​​​ Minor, Op. 64 No. 2, bar 15. In the main text, we suggest adding the mark in accordance with the possible phrasing, hence before the last quaver, which already begins the next musical thought.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , No pedal release mark

b. 593

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

​​​​​​​in FE (→GE1→GE2)

in EE

in GE3

 [] suggested by the editors
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In this context, the missing  mark must be considered an inaccuracy – the fact of writing down a hold of the bass note with hand is most probably aimed at enabling clear pedalling, compliant with harmonic changes. The mark was added already in EE. It is present also in GE3, in the place we suggest in the main text. However, GE3 also arbitrarily moved the ​​​​​​​ mark.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , Inaccuracies in FE , GE revisions , No pedal release mark

b. 597-598

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

 in FE (→GE1→GE2)

 ​​​​​​​ in EE & (GE3)

[] suggested by the editors

[    ], our alternative suggestion
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The missing  mark may be, but does not have to, a mistake of FE or an inaccuracy of [A]. However, since the previous appearances of this phrase offer two variants of a more detailed Chopinesque pedalling, we suggest respective additions; moreover, we adopt the indication modelled on bars 246-247, being a strict transposition of the discussed bars, in the main text. A ​​​​​​​ mark was added also in EE and GE3. 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: EE revisions , GE revisions , No pedal release mark

b. 632-634

composition: Op. 39, Scherzo in C♯ minor

Pedalling in EE

No markings in GC (→GE)

Pedalling in FE

Our suggestion
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None of the sources provides correct pedalling in these bars. No  in EE (b. 632) and FE (b. 634) may only slightly mislead the performer as in both sources the moment of releasing (changing) pedals is marked with  (accordingly in bars 633 and 635). In GC (→GE) there is no pedalling until the end of the piece, which most certainly can be classified as the copyist's omission (in two last lines of the text 259-266 i 548-553). 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE , No pedal release mark , Errors of GC