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Atut - Autograph of first Tutti
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEFo - Forest copy
FEH - Hartmann copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2a - Altered impression of GE2
GE3 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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  b. 526-528

Pedalling in bar 526 & 528 in FE (→EE)

No markings in bar 528 in GE

Our variant suggestion

Leaving bar 527 without expressed bass note – it is also absent in the orchestral part – is possible, yet it implies inadvertence or mistake, since in three similar places (bars 155-157, 171-173 and 510-512) the bass note is held with pedal throughout at least two bars. The version of GE, in which pedal in bar 526 is actually the last pedalling marking of that theme (to bar 533), only increases the doubts. It could have been the original version, left inadvertently in [A] and then corrected in FE in a simplified manner (without removing marks). One can even imagine that Chopin wrote only  in bar 526 as a general reminder (con pedale), and the  mark is a routine addition of the engraver. In this situation, in the main text we suggest two pedalling options (in variant form):

  • the one that is actually present in FE in these bars, yet it may not fully correspond to Chopin's intention;
  • the undoubtedly authentic pedalling of analogous bars 171-173.

 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Pedalling

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