GE3
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A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English Edition
EE2 - Second impression of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 22-28

Asterisks  in A

GE1 (→FEEE)

GE2 (→GE3)

Chopin's intentions connected with the placement of asterisk marks in bars 21-36 are not easy to figure out; this is best illustrated by the manner in which the notation of A was understood in GE1 (all asterisks under the 3rd crotchet) and then in GE2 (all of them after the 3rd crotchet; bar 24 probably contains a mistake). In our opinion, the latter interpretation is the only correct one:

  • all the asterisks  may be treated as written in relation to bar lines (at the end of the bar), and only some  – mainly in bar 21, possibly also in bars 22, 29-31 – as synchronized with the 3rd crotchet;
  • the marks are written hastily, with no care for precision, which precludes the possibility that Chopin wanted to use different pedalling in those bars (only bar 21 may give rise to justified doubt).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in GE

notation: Pedalling

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