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Fingering written into FED, contextual interpretation |
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While preparing the Etude for print, Chopin gave in these bars fingering for the chromatic third minor progression. The scheme – with minor variations, adapting it to the local shape of figurations (in bars 18 and 51) – was indicated by the composer in each place where such chromatic progressions appear.
The digits, written in FED over the half-bar fragment of the chromatic scale, present a generally different fingering from the printed version. Therefore, most probably it was not about replacing the printed fingering only in the place of entry, yet about generalising the given scheme for the entire progression in bars 5-6 (and probably also for all analogous situations). Due to this fact, we consider the option with added fingering only as the correct interpretation. In addition, somehow following Chopin addition introduced in FE, we give its developed version, including also the continuation of the scale.
It is hard to state what was the intention of the added fingering. Perhaps Chopin wanted his pupil to learn the Etude using this fingering, but it is also possible that it was an alternative proposal, intended as an additional exercise, developing dexterity of performing thirds progressions. The argument for this hypothesis would be the fact of leaving the printed indications non-deleted.
category imprint: Differences between sources
issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Annotations in FED, Differences in fingering, Authentic corrections of FE
notation: Fingering
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