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Issues : Annotations in FED

b. 3

composition: Op. 25 No 2, Etude in F minor

Fingering in FED

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 3

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt IV

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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The fingering, added in pencil, most probably by Miss O'Méara, could have been indicated to her by Chopin. Similarly in the R.H. and in bars 4-5.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 3

composition: Op. 35, Sonata in B♭ minor, Mvt IV

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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The fingering, added in pencil, most probably by Miss O'Méara, could have been indicated to her by Chopin. Similarly in the L.H. and in bars 4-5.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 3-7

composition: Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

Fingering written into FED

Fingering digit written into FES

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we give the undoubtedly Chopinesque fingering entered into FED in b. 3 and 7. The key element of that fingering – the 4th finger for the g2 minim – was also added in FES. The 4th finger crossing over the 5th (typical of the Chopinesque fingering) and the 4th finger slipping down from a black to a white key were also indicated in analogous b. 22 and 78. See also b. 14, 15-16 and, e.g. the Sonata in B Minor, Op. 35, 3rd mov., b. 31 or the Nocturne in B Major, Op. 32 No. 1, b. 37.
According to us, indicating the 1st finger twice means that the notes should be performed by the R.H., but it is not explicitly marked (as it was done, e.g. in b. 9); they could also be performed by the L.H. However, the following reasoning is an argument in favour of the R.H. – all notes with beams on the bottom stave should be generally performed by the L.H., which, in this context, implies this very fingering, which, therefore, would not need to be marked at all. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 4

composition: Op. 10 No 5, Etude in G♭ major

d3 in A (→FE→GE,EE)

e3 in FED
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A (→FE→GE,EE) has d3 as the 3rd note of the 3rd triplet, changed by Chopin to e3 in FED. Taking into account the analogous corrections made in A in bars 12 and 52, we consider this change as definitive.

 

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Omitted correction of an analogous place