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GC - Gutmann's copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
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 - Second German edition
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  b. 259-265

Pedalling in EE

No markings in GC (→GE)

Pedalling in FE

Our variant suggestion

Pedalling in bars 243-271, containing three similar eight-bar phrases and the initial 5 bars of the fourth one, displays many differences both between particular sources and between the phrases themselves. Some of those differences may be safely explained as mistakes and inaccuracies  – absence of marks in GC (→GE), partial in bars 252-257 and total in bars 259-266 , as well as shifted  marks in bars 259 and 267 in FE. Having made the necessary corrections, we are left with the two basic types of authentic pedalling for those phrases:

  • two or three bars on a single pedal followed by pedal changes in every bar in line with the changing notes of the melody made by the top notes of both hands in each bar;
  • one pedal for the entire section, based on a single harmony.

If we take into account the entirety of the discussed fragment, the above two types produce two pedalling patterns: uniform (FE, all phrases with type 1 pedalling) and mixed (the first two phrases with changing pedals, and the next two based on a single pedal -  EE and GC, the latter with errors).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Errors of GC

notation: Pedalling

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