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b. 5

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

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In EE1 there is no pedal release sign. The oversight – probably of the copyist performing the base text, as the sign is also absent in bar 69 – was corrected in EE2 (→EE3). Cf. one of the previous notes in this bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Errors in EE

b. 30

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

No sign in GC (→GE1)

 in FE

 in EE

 in GE2 (→GE3)

Our alternative suggestion
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Lack of the  sign in GC (→GE1) may be a result of omission of this copy by Chopin at the time of completing the Stichvorlage manuscripts or of the copyist's oversight. In the main text we give the sign present in EE, although the version of FE is also probably authentic. In addition, we suggest an analogous solution to bar 12, in which the pedalling seems to be best developed.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions; Corrections & alterations

issues: GE revisions , Inaccuracies in GC

b. 37

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

No sign in GC & FE

 in EE

 in GE
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Lack of the  sign in GC and FE is undoubtedly an oversight of Chopin. The sign in EE most probably reflects the Chopin entry in the base text to this edition – if it had been added by the reviser, he would have probably placed the  closer to the end of the bar, such as in analogous bar 19 (this is what the reviser of GE did). The evaluation of the position of the sign by the engraver of EE could have been erroneous, therefore, in the main text we give the sign in accordance with analogous bar 19.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions

b. 45

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

One pedal in GC (→GE) & EE1

Two pedals in FE & EE2 (→EE3)
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The sources give two version of pedalling – one-bar-long in GC (→GE) and EE1 and half-bar-long in FE and EE2 (→EE3). Both versions are certainly authentic and the pedalling of FE can be later – cf. bars 46-48. In the main text we give, however, the first one, as it was written in GC with Chopin's hand and – which could be perhaps meaningful – is present together with the enriched version of the 3rd crochet of the bar. Similarly in bar 47.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Authentic corrections in GC

b. 46-48

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

No pedalling in GC (→GE) & EE1

Pedalling in FE & EE2 (→EE3)
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Chopin must have added the pedalling in bars 46 and 48 in the proofreading of FE or still in the base text to this edition. The indications in EE2 (→EE3) were most probably introduced on the basis of FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Authentic corrections of FE