EEC
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
AI - Autograph Rothschild
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German Edition
GE1op - First German edition of Op. 64
GE1no2 - First German edition of Waltz No 2
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2no2 - Second German edition of Waltz No 2
GE3op - Corrected impression of GE2op
EE - English Edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of EEW1
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  b. 4

No pedalling in A (→FEEE,GE1no2,GE1opGE2opGE3op)

Pedalling in #FE2no2

Our suggestion

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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category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: GE revisions

notation: Pedalling

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