In A the fingering in bar 39 is incomplete – the digits are written only next to first three semiquavers and the bottom fourth note. Next to the top note, Chopin started writing '2', yet he did not finish it. It may mean that he resigned from repeating the fingering given in the previous bar or he stopped it and forgot to finish it. The additions introduced in FE (→GE,EE) seem to suggest the second possibility, yet the first also cannot be excluded, as Chopin could have simply changed his decision. In a proofreading of FE, the finger attributed to the bottom note at the beginning of bar 40 was also changed.
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category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations
issues: Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Fingering