



The A pedal markings, although corrected by Chopin, are probably erroneous. Chopin wrote a (which was later deleted) at the end of bar 146, last on a page; however, he did not write the corresponding – judging from the FE version –
mark at the beginning of bar 147 on the next page. Instead, we can see there a pair of
and
marks, indicating a pedal change in the middle of bar 147, hence after the harmonic change occurring at the beginning of this bar. In a similar situation in bars 313-314 all sources feature a pedal change on the chord change, as in FE in the discussed place. Therefore, it seems that at the beginning of a new page Chopin, for some reason, wrote a pedal change later than he initially intended. According to us, Chopin's likely mistake was caused by a combination of two factors:
- distraction between the pages,
- enharmonic change of notation of the diminished seventh chord from a-c-d
-f
to a-c-e
-g
and the corresponding striking change in notation – instead of a tangle of sharps and naturals, the figuration notation is transparent, using notes compliant with the key signature (c, d
, e
, f).
These factors resulted in an erroneous belief that the harmonic change occurs after the 1st chord in bar 147, which resulted in writing appropriate pedal markings – cf. the pedal markings in bar 149 and 227. In this situation in the main text we give the FE (→EE) pedal markings, compliant with the rhythm of harmonic changes, particularly since their presence in FE required Chopin's intervention in [FC] or while proofreading FE.
category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Corrections in A, Errors resulting from corrections, Errors of A, Deletions in A
notation: Pedalling
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