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Topic: Haydn Sonates - Pedal..yes? or no?  (Read 11205 times)

Offline arthurpianist

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Haydn Sonates - Pedal..yes? or no?
on: January 19, 2006, 03:12:41 AM
Do i have to use pedal or not?

Thanks..im waiting for your answer

Offline rc

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Re: Haydn Sonates - Pedal..yes? or no?
Reply #1 on: January 19, 2006, 04:36:54 AM
It's allowed, certain passages lend themselves to a little pedal. I rarely use it, just for connective purposes, as imperceptible as possible.

Haydn only wrote two pedal marks in his piano music, in the Sonata in C, HobXVI:50. Anything else you see will be editorial.
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Offline Waldszenen

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Re: Haydn Sonates - Pedal..yes? or no?
Reply #2 on: January 19, 2006, 12:12:59 PM
Only occasionally and never for more than two notes. I usually use it to connect/voice chords.
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