FED
Main text
FCI - Fontana's copy of earlier version
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 30

Fingering written into FED

Possible fingering in FES

No fingering in FCI & A (→FE,FCGE)

L.H. fingering in EE

In the main text we take into account the fingering entered – most probably by Chopin – into FED. In this place it is of a reminding nature – the scheme with thumb on d1 was already indicated in b. 28 – and would be more justified a half of a bar earlier or later. However, it does not have to mean that the composer committed a mistake – similar situations, when the fingering was not written for the first time, but only just in one of the repetitions of a given figure, can often be found in the Chopinesque teaching entries, e.g. in the Impromptu in A Major, Op. 29, b. 12 or in the Etude in F Minor, Op. 25 No. 2, b. 3-4. In turn, we do not include the entry in FES, since its interpretation as a fingering digit is uncertain. The inauthentic, although most probably compliant with the Chopinesque idea, L.H. fingering given in EE would be – like the entry in FED – more justified in the 1st half of the bar.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Annotations in FED, Annotations in FES

notation: Fingering

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