GE1
Main text
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE1
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  b. 19-20

Pedalling in A, literal reading

Pedalling in A, contextual interpretation

Pedalling in GE & EE2

No markings in FE (→EE1)

The pedal markings in these bars (as well as in the subsequent ones, until bar 42) were added to A almost certainly after [FC] had already been finished, which explains their absence in FE (→EE1), based on this copy. It is difficult to imagine that an entire page of markings could have been overlooked; the same applies to the possibility of the markings having been removed from [FC] or FE. In GE the A notation was reproduced with a minor inaccuracy – the first  mark in bar 20 was placed right before the next  mark, hence after the chord on the 2nd beat, and not before, as it can be seen in A. Moreover, a  was added at the end of this bar, which we include in the main text, since the absence of this mark is probably Chopin's oversight (in A this bar is at the end of a line, which is conducive to oversights). The markings in EE2 were added on the basis of GE1.
See also bar 18.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

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

notation: Pedalling

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