FED
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Atut - Autograph of first Tutti
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FEFo - Forest copy
FEH - Hartmann copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Corrected impression of GE1
GE2a - Altered impression of GE2
GE3 - Second German edition
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE2 - Corrected impression of EE2
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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Fingering written into FED, possible reading

No teaching fingering

The interpretation of the fingering in FED is not easy, since the digits were written on top of each other a few times, which hampers their interpretation. Initially, 3 or 4 digits '2' were written in a delicate handwriting: . The later layer includes pairs of digits encompassed with little curved lines; some of them were probably changed, but it was most probably 3 groups of 32 that were eventually left. Such notation is generally used to mark changes of fingers; however, in this context, one should rather expect pairs of 23, like it was marked by Chopin in the Variations, op. 2, bars 59 and 61. Therefore, the notation could still be wrong, in spite of corrections. Another possibility is to play three times simultaneously with two fingers. A suggestion for such an exceptional expressive fingering may be recognised also in the Mazurka in A minor, op. 59, no. 1, bar 25.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Annotations in FED, Differences in fingering

notation: Fingering

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