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Issues : Annotations in FED

b. 4

composition: Op. 10 No 9, Etude in F minor

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 4-5

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

Fingering written in FED, more probable reading

Less probable reading

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. According to us, the numeral under the last quaver in bar 4 can be interpreted in two ways – as '4' or as '1'.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 4-5

composition: Op. 28 No. 23, Prelude in F major

No fingering in A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE

Fingering written into FED
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We give Chopin's fingering written into FED in the main text. However, nothing indicates that the fingering in EE could have come from Chopin.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 5

composition: Op. 25 No 6, Etude in G♯ minor

Fingering in FC (→GE) & EE

Fingering in FE

Fingering written into FED, contextual interpretation

Suggested complement to FED fingering
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The chromatic third progression has two fingering versions in the sources:

  1. The fingering of FE (→GE) and EE, including 13 thirds in bar 5, printed also in FE in a completed version (the addition, undoubtedly performed by Chopin, was almost certainly introduced in the proofreading of this edition). All remaining chromatic progressions in this Etude were fingered by Chopin according to this scheme.
  2. The fingering written in FED over eight thirds in the 1st half in bar 5. According to us, they are to be interpreted as different from the printed proposal of fingering for the entire chromatic scale in these bars. Taking into account the fact that the first fingering was eventually indicated next to each third, we suggest a similar generalisation also for the second scheme, added in FED.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Differences in fingering , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 5-6

composition: Op. 25 No 11, Etude in A minor

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FE overlooked the general part of the octave sign over the initial, highest fragment of figuration (in the majority of the sources, including FE, it embraces also half of bar 6). The only visible trace of the indication is the word loco, which was used to end the octave sign in the times of Chopin. This patent error was corrected in FED and FEJ.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FEJ