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Fingering written into FES, literal reading |
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Fingering written into FES, contextual interpretation |
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Fingering written into FEH |
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No teaching fingering |
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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