Main text
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. 72

Pedalling in A (→FEEE)

No pedalling in GE

A varied approach to the pedalling in bars 68-69 and 72-73 draws attention. In A (→FEEE) in bar 68 there are no indications, which are written only in bar 69. In an analogous situation four bars later, it is the other way round – pedalling is present in bar 72, yet not in bar 73. One can ponder whether it was a mistake and whether the pedal was not supposed to concern bar 73 (see a note in this bar), which seems to be more natural. There are two arguments against this suggestion:

  • the visible in A (most probably – the photograph does not give an absolute certainty) correction at the beginning of bar 73, extending the f to the value of a minim. The procedure provides a long enough dying out of the bass note;
  • a possibility of omitting the pedalling in bar 72 in FE and then its readdition – perhaps by Chopin – in the last proofreading (it is indicated by the absence of these indications in GE).

Taking into consideration the above, in the main text we leave the pedalling of A (→FEEE).

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pedalling

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