FES - Stirling copy


Publisher: Henry Lemoine
Date: (1843-1848)
Title: Etudes || 8me Étude
Dedication: Madame la Comtesse d'Agoult

Pupil's copy of FE3 from the collection of Chopin works belonging to his pupil Jane Stirling. It contains a few annotations in pencil, rather atypical for Chopin's handwriting, which, however, does not question, according to us, its credibility as indications coming from Chopin:

  • fingering in bars 5 and 9-10;
  • correction of errors of the edition (change of e2 to d2 in bar 6 and addition of the overlooked  in bar 14).

The  visible in bar 3 before g2 in the last triplet is of reminding nature, it is probably a lesson note, correcting the pupil's mistake.

Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. Vma 241 (III,25)