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FE1

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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. 180-181

		Continuous pedal in A
		No pedal in GE, interpretation
		2 pedals in FE (→EE)
		Our variant suggestion

The FE pedal markings take advantage of the harmonic legato, carefully written out by Chopin, and is recommended as such, particularly on contemporary pianos – cf. bars 43-48. Due to this fact, as in those bars, in the main text we include it in a variant form, keeping the A indication as the principal one. In GE there is no mark at all in these bars, which we interpret as the absence of pedalling.
See also bars 184-185.

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Op. 49, Fantaisie in F minor