Issues : Annotations in FED
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b. 169
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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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: category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Differences in fingering |
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b. 171
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
category imprint: Differences between sources |
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b. 179-184
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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Both Fontana in EE and the reviser in GE3 suggest in bar 179 the same fingering that was written in FED during a lesson with Chopin. The indications in FEH (in bars 179-180 and 184), much more detailed, also describe the same fingering (in bar 179, the digit applying to the a quaver is almost certainly erroneous – it should be a '3' as in the analogous bar 534, and not a '2'). category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FED , GE revisions , Annotations in FEH |
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b. 187-191
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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Like at the beginning of this section (bar 179), Fontana's fingering coincides with the one indicated by Chopin during lessons. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FEH |
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b. 190
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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Fontana's fingering is almost certainly identical with the indication in FED, stemming from a lesson with Chopin. In that copy, apart from the evident digit '2,' written twice in a way typical of FED, first by Chopin, then by Madame Dubois, there is a visible delicate line next to the a category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FED |
. 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.
1 quaver. The mark could be interpreted as a digit '1,' yet it is uncertain, hence in the main text, we give only the '2' described above.