Issues : Annotations in teaching copies
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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. 179-180
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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The natural fingering indicated by Fontana probably corresponds to Chopin's intention; however, it does not prove that Fontana based his indication on an authentic source. The entry in FEH most probably marks the same fingering. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FEH |
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b. 181-185
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composition: Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt I
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Fontana indicated the 4th finger on the 4th b semiquaver three times – in bars 181, 182 and 185. In the same place in bars 181 and 185, in FEH, the 3rd finger was marked (see also notes to bars 536-537 and 540). A possible authenticity of these divergent indications is uncertain. category imprint: Differences between sources issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Differences in fingering , Annotations in FEH |
. 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.
