Pathetique Pedaling

[carrie10]

Please help!  Does anyone have some suggestions for pedaling in measures 5-9 of Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique (movement 1)?  Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[j_menz]

Start with none.  Then add according to taste, but don't be afraid to re-pedal often. I'd do more in the ff sections and much less in the p sections, and use on the sfp but release at the rest. Don't pedal the staccatos.

[theholygideons]

https://imslp.eu/linkhandler.php?path=/imglnks/euimg/c/c9/IMSLP11070-Godowsky_APS_16_Beethoven_Sonate_pathetique.pdf

Godowsky's editions are always full of pedal markings.

just pedal on every harmony change, and pedal twice if the melody starts to clash, i.e when the melody moves a step down.

[theholygideons]

btw, have fun with the tremolos
MUAHAHAHA
those are cruel.

[4greatkeyboards]

Sure, pedal all the slow chords switching when they switch. But on the two runs: I like to pedal only the last 8 notes all on the or so of the E-flat major run down, the phrase Beethoven marked, and no pedal at all on the chromatic run down from high E-flat.

Can you play each run perfectly and at speed seven times in a row with no pedal? I test myself this way to be sure I have learned them well enough to perform live.