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wurlitzer
I'm currently working on Chopin's Étude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3 but I'm unsure about pedalling throughout the piece.
Does anyone have any advice on pedalling? There are some pedal marks on the sheet music I have, but only some, and when I follow these pedal marks it takes away the legato feel.
Any help would be much appreciated! smile.gif
Robodoc
QUOTE(wurlitzer @ Aug 27 2009, 07:34 PM) *

I'm currently working on Chopin's Étude in E Major, Op. 10 No. 3 but I'm unsure about pedalling throughout the piece.
Does anyone have any advice on pedalling? There are some pedal marks on the sheet music I have, but only some, and when I follow these pedal marks it takes away the legato feel.
Any help would be much appreciated! smile.gif

Which edition?

One piece of advice that seemed to be fairly widespread last week was to take any marked pedaling in a Chopin score with a pinch of salt: First try it without any pedaling. This will inevitably sound far too dry so then you can start working out where you need some extra help with legato: Where you want the legato feel try finger legato/finger pedaling. Where that fails use the pedal, but use it sensitively - don't just flood it. I think some editions (Padarevsky??) mark the pedal as down at the start and then changed on the first beat of every bar: As a very eminent teacher said in a lesson I watched last week: "I don't need to have spoken to Chopin on the phone last night and asked him to know that this is not how Chopin used the pedal!"
wurlitzer
QUOTE(Robodoc @ Aug 29 2009, 04:23 PM) *

Which edition?

One piece of advice that seemed to be fairly widespread last week was to take any marked pedaling in a Chopin score with a pinch of salt: First try it without any pedaling. This will inevitably sound far too dry so then you can start working out where you need some extra help with legato: Where you want the legato feel try finger legato/finger pedaling. Where that fails use the pedal, but use it sensitively - don't just flood it. I think some editions (Padarevsky??) mark the pedal as down at the start and then changed on the first beat of every bar: As a very eminent teacher said in a lesson I watched last week: "I don't need to have spoken to Chopin on the phone last night and asked him to know that this is not how Chopin used the pedal!"


Thank you! biggrin.gif
It's the Dover Publications (1996) edition, which was Edited by Carl Mikuli, who was Chopin's pupil and then went on to become his teaching assistant.
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