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A - Autograph
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Later impression of GE1
GET - Toruń copy
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French Edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
FEFr - Franchomme copy
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English Edition
EE3 - Later impression of EE1
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  b. 70-71

A more precise version of the fingering in GET

Fingering written into FES, bar 73

Fingering in FED

Complementary fingerings combined

Version without teaching fingering

The numerals of Chopin's fingering coming from three different sources – GET, FES  and FED – complement one another well, describing one and the same fingering , and therefore we give them jointly in the main text.  The fingering contains three devices often used by Chopin: the change of fingers on a single piano key, sliding of the finger from the black key to the white one, and crossing the 5th finger under the 4th. It is, however, possible that  the digits entered into each one of those teaching copies were fragments of slightly different fingerings, especially the 5th finger for f2written into FED is not the only possible continuation of the 4th finger for g flat2 neither does it necessarily have to follow the fingers 5-4 on g2-g flat2 .

The numeral 5 written in GET over the 2nd quaver of bar  71 definitely means finger substitution on the crotchet a flat2, therefore we add a tiny slur next to that note. This fingering specifically means that the crotchet should be sustained with the hand, not only with the pedal.

The entry in FES relates to an analogous fragment  in bar 73 – cf. General Editorial Principles , p. 17.

 

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources; Editorial revisions

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

notation: Fingering

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