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Issues : Annotations in FES

b. 7-8

composition: Op. 28 No. 6, Prelude in B minor

Fingering written into FEJ

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we include the fingering written in FES, partially confirmed also by FEJ.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 7-8

composition: Op. 63 No. 2, Mazurka in F minor

No fingering in As & EEW

Fingering in FE (→GE)

Fingering written into FES

Fingering written into FES
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The absence of fingering in EEW must be an oversight. In the main text we give both the fingering printed in FE (→GE) and the preceding pencil addition in FES – the 4th finger on a1, which almost certainly comes from Chopin.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Errors in EE , Annotations in FES

b. 8

composition: Op. 27 No 2, Nocturne in D♭ major

Lines indicating precisely the rhythm of a group of small notes in FES

No indication of synchronisation of both hands in the remaining sources
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In A Chopin placed the small quavers more or less in the middle between the g flat3 crotchet and the c2 semiquaver,  not taking particular care to position that group in any relation to the semiquavers in the left hand. That notation was basically copied in the editions, yet in  GE, and especially in FE the group was clearly moved towards the beginning of the bar, which could in itself suggest a faulty interpretation.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Synchronization markings , Annotations in FES

b. 8

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

'2 1' written into FED

'4 3' written into FES

Our suggestion

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 8

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering

Our variant suggestion
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In fact, the numerals written into FED and FES can be treated jointly, yet, most probably, they indicate different fingering of the first five semiquavers:

  • 5-4-3-2-1 in FED,
  • 3-2-1-3-1 or 4-3-1-3-1 in FES.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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