Issues : Annotations in FEH

b. 86

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

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

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The fingering in FEH indicates a return to performing half-bar passages in one flexible hand position, without transferring it like in the previous bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEH

b. 88

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

Fingering written into FES

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

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The fingering of the sequence of thirds written in FEH is confirmed by a compliant entry in FES and in the fragment based on the chromatic sequence of minor thirds also by the Chopinesque fingering in the Etude in G minor, op. 25, no. 6, bar 5 (semiquavers 11-13) and bar 18. Due to this reason, we include it in the main text.  

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 91

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

Fingering written into FES, literal reading

Fingering written into FES, contextual interpretation

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

Chopin's fingering chosen by the editors

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It is difficult to assign the digits written in FES to a natural fingering. The most likely explanation is that Miss Stirling committed a mistake at the time of writing them in ink on the basis of the Chopinesque indications written in pencil. Taking into account the fingering in the 1st half of the bar, one could suggest two possibilities: the '3' was supposed to be written under the '5' and not after it or the '3' was written by mistake instead of a '4'. We suggest only the second possibility as an acceptable variant, since it is totally compatible with the fingering from the 1st half of the bar. In the main text, we include only the first of the digits written in FES – its authenticity does not raise any doubts; moreover, together with the previous digits, it clarifies the fingering on the 3rd beat of the bar.
As an alternative, one could adopt the fingering written in FEH, which may have come from Chopin.

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Differences in fingering , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEH

b. 91

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

a1 in FE (→GE,EE)

f1 in FEH

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The variant written in FEH bears all the hallmarks of authenticity – pianistic and harmonic dexterity as well as the smoothness of the transition to the next bar (cf. a similar procedure in the variants added in the Nocturne in D major, op. 27, no. 2, bar 38). The manner of notation is also compliant with similar entries in the copies containing annotations whose Chopinesque origin is confirmed. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Authentic post-publication changes and variants , Annotations in FEH

b. 91

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

5th finger indicated in FEH

No teaching fingering

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEH