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Op. 25 No 1, Etude in A♭ major

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Main text
Main text
AI - Earlier autograph
A - Autograph
CDP - Copy for Delfina Potocka
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected reprint of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected reprint of GE1
GE1b - Flawed impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Revised impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected reprint of EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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3 pedals in AI & A (→GE)

2 pedals in FE

4 pedals in EE

It is hard to evaluate the authenticity of alternative pedalling of FE and EE. Each of them may be a result of either the copyist's or engraver's mistake or Chopin correction in one of the lost autographs. The authenticity of all three source versions could mean Chopin's significant uncertainty, as far as the best pedalling variant of this bar is concerned.

We complete the unfinished pedalling of AI on the basis of A.

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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

notation: Pedalling

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