GE1
Main text
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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  b. 51-52

No fingering in A

Fingering in FE (→GE1GE2)

GE3 (→GE4GE5)

EE2

EE3 (→EE4)

Fingering written into FES

Our variant suggestion

The given in the main text fingering of bar 51 was added by Chopin in a proofreading of FE (→GE1GE2). Apparently, the deletion of the '2' digit (in ink) visible in FE should be understood as the '1' digit and this is the interpretation we include in the main text as a variant suggestion. The copy includes other signs (in pencil), which are probably also '1's over the 7th and 12th semiquavers in bar 51 and the 1st one in bar 52. However, the signs could be interpreted in another way, e.g., as an indication of performance with the R.H., therefore, we do not include them in the main text. In EE2 the final fragment of the Etude was provided with additional fingering and indications for the division between the hands contrary to the one written by Chopin. In EE3 (→EE4) those indications were removed, and four digits were added in bar 51.

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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Inaccuracies in GE, Annotations in FES, Authentic corrections of FE

notation: Fingering

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