mUltimate Chopin

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A - Autograph

FC - Fontana's copy

FE - French edition

FE1 - First French edition

FED - Dubois copy

FES - Stirling copy

FESf - Schiffmacher copy

GE - German edition

GE1 - First German edition

GE2 - Second German edition

GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2

EE - English edition

EE1 - First English edition

EE2 - Revised impression of EE1

EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2

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b. 540-543

		Pedal up to bar 542 in A
		No markings in FC (→GE1) & GE3
		only in FE (→EE)
		Pedal up to bar 543 in GE2

In the main text we give the pedalling of A, the only irrefutably authentic. The missing pedalling in FC (→GE) may be a result of an oversight of the copyist: overlooked slurs suggest distraction. It is also likely that Chopin added it in A after having prepared FC. The missing mark seems to be an oversight of the engraver of FE. The oversight can result in a long, more or less four-bar pedal, to which this virtuoso passage in loud dynamics prompts. Such a pedalling was indicated – arbitrarily – in GE2 and removed in GE3.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in FE, GE revisions, No pedal release mark, Errors of FC

notation: Pedalling

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Original in: Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa

Op. 31, Scherzo in B♭ minor