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Main text
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Second French edition
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Second impression of EE1
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GE

Our suggestion

Different placements of the  mark in bars 38-39 may result from not entirely precise notation of handwritten base texts of first editions. The pedalling notation in Chopin's works is sometimes ambiguous – cf. the remark concerning bars 26-27. In the main text we consider one of the source versions and we propose a pedal depressed together with the appearance of the bass note of the E major chord as an alternative version. It will enable achieving a clear sound of the passage also on contemporary pianos.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

notation: Pedalling

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