AI is devoid of pedalling markings in the entire fragment (until b. 91), which does not carry any information about the pedalling itself – Chopin simply did not mark it in the unfinished manuscript; consequently, we do not treat it on a par with the other variants. The 
marks are placed in AF before, under or after the 3rd crotchet of the bar, yet their placement is not explicitly linked to the harmonic content of the chords, e.g. marks after the 3rd crotchet are to be found in b. 48, 54 and 56, in which the chord does not change, as well as in b. 55, in which the chord changes on the 3rd beat to E major. FE and GE do not bear traces of intervention in this respect – they reproduced the notation of AF, yet inaccurately and with tendency to delay the pedal release. In the main text we reproduce the consistent notation of GE, in which the placement of the marks was standardised in a satisfactory manner, as far as the sound is concerned, both in the bars where the chord changes and where it does not.
B. 46-47 are discussed separately.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information
issues: Inaccuracies in FE, EE inaccuracies, Inaccuracies in A
notation: Pedalling
