Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 649

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FEH

b. 658

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

e & e1 in FE (→GE,EE)

e​​​​​​​ & e1 in FES

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On the basis of the available sources, one cannot determine whether Chopin chose one version of the 1st note of bass, and if yes then which one. In FE (→GE,EE), there is an e-e1, left unchanged by Chopin in four out of five pupil's copies, including two that bear visible traces of this movement of the Concerto having been studied with Chopin (FED and FEH). However, in FEorch (→GEorch) cellos have an e1, and in FES, flats before the 1st chord are added, whose shape does not exclude Chopin's hand. Since both versions seem to be authentic, we choose to the main text the one that is presented by the principal source, i.e. FE.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Chopin's hesitations , Annotations in FES , Authentic corrections of FE

b. 660

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FEH

No fingering in FE (→GE)

Fontana's fingering in EE

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In the main text, we give a fingering that was probably written by Chopin in FEH, essentially compliant with the Chopinesque entry in FED. In this situation, the authenticity of a different fingering, given by Fontana in EE, seems to be out of the question.  

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FED , Differences in fingering , Annotations in FEH

b. 665-666

composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering

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The fingering in FED quite significantly differs from the other entries in this copy in terms of size and font, so it seems that it could not have been written by Chopin or Miss O'Meara. In spite of that, the fingering is practically identical with the one that Chopin wrote above a similar sequence of chromatic fourths in the copy of the Grand Duo Concertant, Dbop. 29 belonging to Miss Forest.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED