AI
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AI - Working autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE1a - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2 - Second German edition
GE3 - Third German edition
GE4 - Fourth German edition
GE5 - Fifth German edition
EE - English edition
EE2 - First English edition
EE3 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE4 - Revised impression of EE3
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No fingering in AI & FE (→GE)

Fingering in EE

Fingering written into FES

In AI Chopin wrote the fingering only in three places, in bars 13, 47 and 79-80. FE (→GE) does not repeat the fingering of AI in bars 13 and 47, yet in the entire Etude there are many more indications (bars 12, 25, 31, 33, 37, 43, 79-80), added in [A] or in a proofreading of FE.

In EE Fontana added the fingering in bars 1, 4-6, 8, 13-24, 26-31, 35-36, 39-51, 63-73, 75-77, not always resulting from Chopin's indications, and in many places contrary to the fingering written by Chopin into pupil's copies, FED and FES (in bars 1, 6, 21, 27, 29, 35, 45, 47). There are also places with a double, alternative fingering – bars 21 and 47.

Minor revisions of the fingering were also introduced in GE3 and GE4 (bars 33 and 37).

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category imprint: Differences between sources

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

notation: Fingering

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