in 
The pedalling of b. 346-357 was written by Chopin twice, both in A and FC. There are two explanations for that situation:
- the copyist forgot to write the markings present in A, and Chopin added them later;
- while writing A Chopin did not mark the pedalling in these bars (he could have considered the markings of analogous b. 338-340, written a line higher, to be the model, which he would often apply in other compositions, e.g. in the Etude in A
Major, Op. 10 No. 10, b. 5-6,) and added them only while reviewing and completing both manuscripts.
According to us, the second possibility is much more likely, which is proven by analogous b. 448-459, written in A without pedalling. A glance at the layout of A and FC even allows us to make an assumption that Chopin could have been adding the markings in question parallelly in both manuscripts, since he entered pedalling into three bars at the beginning of the second line of A (b. 346-348), repeating the markings of b. 338-340, which are a line higher. Then he repeated it in FC – he copied the markings from the beginning of the top line to the next one; however, he did not notice that in FC the top line begins from b. 339, as a result of which it includes only two bars with pedalling. Such a scenario explains the absence of pedalling markings in b. 348 in FC. The above conclusion, even if accurate, should not be applied to all markings added in A and FC by Chopin, since other places suggest that the manuscripts were rather not completed simultaneously.
In GE2 (→GE3) the pedalling was added on the basis of a comparison with the analogous bars.
category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information
issues: Corrections in A, GE revisions, Authentic corrections of FC
notation: Pedalling
Back to note