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Op. 25 No 2, Etude in F minor

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b. 2-3

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

Fingering in FED

Fingering in FED

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No teaching fingering
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The fingering digits pairs written in FED and FES complement each other.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 3

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

Fingering in FED

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 3-4

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

'4' written into FES

Our suggestion

No teaching fingering
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In the main text we list the complementary fingering versions written in different sources in this bar and its subsequent repetitions:

  • '1' written into AW in bar 53,
  • '4' written into FES,
  • '3' written into FES in bar 54

(cf. General Editorial Principles, p. 17).

category imprint: Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 3-4

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

  in AT

No signs in AW

  in CDP

  in GC (→GE), FE & EE
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In practice, the differences in the range of the dynamic hairpins, in spite of being quite significant, are of minimal influence on the interpretation of these signs. Lack of hairpins in AW may be a proof of Chopin's inadvertence rather than hesitation.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Chopin's hesitations

b. 3

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

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Chopin hesitated whether to put cautionary flats before d1 and d3. The signs are included in the earliest source (AT) and in the published version, including GC (→GE), FE and EE. In turn, in CDP there is only the second of them, while AW included the first one (in the L.H.), yet Chopin eventually deleted it. Despite this fact, in the main text we give exactly this , returned in the later sources and, according to us, justified.

category imprint: Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations

issues: Chopin's hesitations , Cautionary accidentals , Deletions in A , Last key signature sign