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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. 88-89

No pedalling in A (contextual interpretation→FEEE,GE1no2,GE,op)

Pedalling in bar 89 in GE2no2

Pedalling suggested by the editors

The only pedalling indication in these bars in A is the  sign at the end of bar 89. A second could have been a  sign, probably deleted at the beginning of bar 88. It is not easy to indicate how it occurred that this incomplete notation was left. Considering that none of three actions – introducing signs in bars 88 and 89 and deleting the sign in bar 88 – was performed by mistake, one can conclude that Chopin wanted to resign from the pedalling in bar 88 in favour of the pedal in bar 89. The version was introduced – certainly not by analysing A – in GE2no2. It can be considered an alternative with respect to the version of the main text, suggested by us, including both the pedal in bar 88 on the basis of analogy with bar 72 and the one in bar 89.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions, Errors of A, FE revisions

notation: Pedalling

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