According to us, the absence of pedalling in this bar in A is a result of Chopin's temporary uncertainty on whether and how to mark it, when the harmony changes on the 3rd beat of the bar. It is the first situation of this kind in the Waltz and the composer temporarily considered, as it seems, to sustain the bass note c
with hand, like in bar 12 – the visible deletion most probably concerned the c minim. One can assume that the final version could be the pedalling of analogous bar 20, written already after having found a satisfactory solution in bars 8 and 10. Therefore, in the main text we suggest this pedalling; a respective addition was introduced already in GE2no2.
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notation: Pedalling
