FED
Main text
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, literal reading

Fingering in FED, interpretation

Fingering written into FEFo

Fingering written into FEH

No fingering in FE (→GE)

Fontana's fingering in EE

At first glance, the entry in FED contains two fingering digits over the 9th and 10th semiquavers – 1 and 4. However, although the 4th finger on D does not raise doubts, the mark concerning E, if it actually marked the 1st finger, would lead to an inconvenient fingering, generally differing from the one Chopin gave in the previous bars. Therefore, it is either a mistake (it could have been, e.g. an unfinished '4' that someone began writing over the wrong note) or the meaning of the mark is different.
​​​​​​​In the main text, we give the fingering in FEFo, although in this case Chopin's hand is doubtful. Possibly, the pupil copied the indication given her in bar 310. This fingering is consistent with other entries in the pupils' copies (taking into account only the '4' in FED), EE and, first of all. with the previous printed Chopinesque indications.  

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Annotations in FED, Annotations in FEH, Annotations in FEFo

notation: Fingering

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