Issues : Annotations in FEH

b. 3

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt II

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

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The authenticity of the fingering added in FEH is uncertain – see the characterization of that source.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEH

b. 18

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt II

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEH

b. 18-19

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt II

Fingering written into FED & FES

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

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Apart from the 1 digit over the last quaver in bar 18, the entry in FEH includes one more mark, which is difficult to interpret, since it may be a sharp or a slur. According to us, its placement suggests that it was supposed to combine that quaver with the minim in bar 19, which would practically indicate the same fingering as in the two remaining pupils' copies. See the adjacent note on the slur.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEH

b. 18-19

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt II

Slur written into FED

No sign in FE (→GE,EE)

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We interpret the quite ambiguous mark written in FED at the end of bar 18 as a slur. The necessity to combine the last quaver in bar 18 with the following minim is clearly indicated by the Chopinesque fingering and probably also by the mark written in FEH

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FEH

b. 23-24

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt III

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FEH

No fingering in FE (→GE)

Fontana's fingering in EE

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The fingering of FEH, which is not written by Chopin's hand, yet it may come from a lesson with the composer, is based on a different idea than the fingering indicated by Chopin in FED. In the further part of bar 24, both fingerings are much more compliant. Fontana's fingering in EE significantly differs from the indications included in FED; in turn, the discrepancy with respect to FEH concerns only the 2nd and 3rd semiquavers in bar 23.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FEH