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Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

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Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 25

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering

Fingering in FED, standard notation
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Chopin wrote three digits to indicate the fingering of the trill, perhaps in order to underline the unobvious set of fingers, in which during the entire trill the 3rd finger plays c1 over the 1st finger, remaining on b.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 26

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering

Fingering in EE2 (→EE3)

Suggested combination of Chopin's indications
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The fingering of both copies complements each other, hence in the main text we give it together. The fingering added by the reviser of EE2 (→EE3) is entirely compatible in this bar with the one following from Chopin indications. It also concerns the fingering of the first, thirteen-note group of demisemiquavers in EE – see a previous note in this bar.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 27

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Fingering digit written in FES

No teaching fingering

Fingering in EE2 (→EE3)
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The fingering added by the reviser of EE2 (→EE3) is undoubtedly the only numeral written by Chopin in this bar in FES.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 35

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

Arpeggio sign in GC (→GE) & EE

No arpeggio sign in FE

Ties in FES
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The arpeggio in GC was added most probably by Chopin (cf. the arpeggios written with the hand of a copyist in the Etude in A minor, No. 11, bar 53-54). Therefore, lack of the sign in FE is probably a result of the composer's inattention. The sustention of the chord marked in FES, compatible with Chopin's tendency to eliminate the strokes of the accompanying part together with the sounds of the top voice (cf. the note to bar 30), may be considered as an equal variant.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES , Authentic corrections in GC

b. 37

composition: Op. 25 No 7, Etude in C♯ minor

No grace note in GC (→GE), FE & EE

More likely reading of grace note in FED

Less likely reading of grace note in FED
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The grace note added in FED is placed inaccurately, so that one does not know whether it is a or g (or g). In face of such a significant doubt, we do not include this addition in the main text, particularly due to the fact that the most likely interpretation of the grace note – as a – indicates a way of beginning the trill compatible with the classical rule, which Chopin generally used, hence not requiring an additional marking. 

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED