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Op. 25 No 2, Etude in F minor

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Issues : Annotations in FED

b. 16

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

Fingering in AW

Fingering written into FED

No handwritten fingering 
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In the main text we give Chopin fingering drawn from AW, confirmed with an entry in FED.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 18

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

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we give the fingering written into FED. The first numeral, written in FES, does not have to mean the same fingering, although it is possible.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 37-38

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

'1' written in AW

'13' written into FED

No handwritten fingering
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The fingering written here to FED may be connected both with the fingers indicated further in this source and with these resulting from the numeral written over the 10th quaver of the bar in AW – see the adjacent note.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 37-38

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

'1' in AW

Fingering written into FED

No handwritten fingering

Our variant suggestion
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It is the only in this Etude example of different fingering written by Chopin in different sources. Possible reconstruction of both fingering versions:

AW   

FED  .

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 43

composition: Op. 25 No 2, 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