FES
Main text
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - First French edition
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 EE1
EE3 - Revised impression of EE2
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Fingering written into FES, literal reading

Fingering written into FES, contextual interpretation

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

Chopin's fingering chosen by the editors

It is difficult to assign the digits written in FES to a natural fingering. The most likely explanation is that Miss Stirling committed a mistake at the time of writing them in ink on the basis of the Chopinesque indications written in pencil. Taking into account the fingering in the 1st half of the bar, one could suggest two possibilities: the '3' was supposed to be written under the '5' and not after it or the '3' was written by mistake instead of a '4'. We suggest only the second possibility as an acceptable variant, since it is totally compatible with the fingering from the 1st half of the bar. In the main text, we include only the first of the digits written in FES – its authenticity does not raise any doubts; moreover, together with the previous digits, it clarifies the fingering on the 3rd beat of the bar.
As an alternative, one could adopt the fingering written in FEH, which may have come from Chopin.

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category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies, Differences in fingering, Annotations in FES, Annotations in FEH

notation: Fingering

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paryż