Op 7 no 1

• Bar 1
  The 1959 edition has no metronome mark. The asterisked footnote is present, but not the additional footnote a) Nachgetretenes Pedal in the Simrock edition (where it is not clear what a) refers to).

  The pedalling indication is simply con ped. Some individual pedal marks are given to indicate that a note in the bass is to be held: these are on the second beat of bars 5 and 6, and at the beginning of bars 17, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45 and 46. There is an additional (con Ped.) at the start of bar 21. Bar 50 indicates that the pedal should be held over the last three notes of the LH.

  The only fingerings given in the 1959 edition are for the LH in bars 47-48.

• Bars 55-56
  One sometimes hears these bars performed with a rallentando, but Medtner surely intended any relaxation of the tempo to be left to the poco riten. in bar 57. In the author's opinion the passage sounds better played in tempo.

Op 7 no 2

• Bar 1
  The 1959 edition has no metronome mark. There is a footnote in Russian that I lack the skill to translate.

  The first 6 pedal marks are present, after which bar 3 has sempre con Ped. There are further pedal marks at the following places: bars 4 and 6, on the sf with a release mark before the rest; start of bar 5; 2nd beat of bars 10 and 12; 3rd beat of bar 14; start of bar 17; start of bar 25; the two low notes of bar 26; start of bars 41, 42 and 47; the two low notes of bar 48; start of bars 49 and 50; start of bar 79 with a release mark before the 3rd beat of bar 80.

  The only fingerings in the 1959 edition are those indicated below for bar 75.

• Bar 17
  The first 7 notes of the arpeggio are the same in both editions. In the Simrock edition this is followed by an accacciatura A (below middle C), and the A an octave above is struck simultaneously with the RH chord. The 1959 edition continues the appogiatura upwards with A, E, A. The last of these three small notes is tied to the first chord, which bears the mark fp.
• Bars 19-20
  The 1959 edition has poco a poco più mobile e diminuendo without an fz on the last chord
• Bar 24
  The 1959 edition has poco rit. over the final two chords in the RH
• Bar 30
  The 1959 edition has f at the start of the bar
• Bar 40
  The marking in the 1959 edition bears the qualification (ma non subito)
• Bars 51-56
  The tempo indication in bar 51 of the 1959 edition adds (agitato). The Simrock edition has diminuendo hairpins in bars 51 and 52 and a crescendo hairpin in bar 54 that are absent in the 1959 edition. The 1959 edition lacks e con moto in bar 55 and the slurs/phrase marks in both hands over bars 55 and 56. (The Simrock edition has additional RH slurs elsewhere; these might be editorial)
• Bars 64-67
  The slurs indicated in brackets in the Simrock edition are not present in the 1959 edition. There is an obvious misprint in bar 65 of Simrock: the 3rd from last note in the RH should be E.
• Bar 68
  In the Simrock edition the final note in the LH is a single E below the stave with the indication 8va bassi. The 1959 edition gives both this note and the E an octave below.
• Bar 69
  The 1959 edition has poco a poco accelerando here and omits the f dynamic
• Bar 75
  The 1959 edition bears the LH fingering 1234 1235 for the first two groups. This is the only fingering given in the whole piece.
• Bar 79
  In the 1959 edition the first four notes of the run are marked m.s. and the 5th note m.d.

Op 7 no 3

• Bars 1-2
  In the 1959 edition the lower stems in the LH are present in the first two figures, followed by simile. The Simrock edition writes in the stems wherever this figuration appears.

  The pedalling is mostly consistent between the two editions.

  There is additional fingering in the Simrock edition. However quite a lot of the fingering in replicated in the 1959 edition.

• Bars 19-24
  The pedal marks in the Simrock edition are not present in the 1959 edition
• Bar 22
  The 1959 edition has a footnote with the following Ossia for the two figures in the LH: D E natural F G sharp A
• Bar 36
  In the 1959 edition, the penultimate note of the LH is marked m.d. with an additional upward stem
• Bar 37
  The 1959 edition has a diminuendo in the LH in the second half of the bar
• Bars 133-134
  In the 1959 edition there is an Ossia in which each G in the LH is accompanied by the octave below