Issues : Annotations in FES

b. 122

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

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering

Our variant suggestion

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The authenticity of both differing Chopinesque fingerings is unquestionable, hence in the main text we include them in a variant form. The fingering of FED, with a shift of the 5th finger on white keys, requires a better sense of the keyboard, probably going beyond the amateur skills of Miss Stirling. It can also suggest performing the final fragment of the 1st half of the bar using "harmonic legato" – in this case, holding the d3 and fnotes with fingers.

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

b. 122

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

Fingering written into FES & FEH

No fingering in FE (→GE)

Fingering in EE

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In the main text, we include the fingering of FES, based almost certainly on Chopinesque indications. An identical fingering is featured also in FEH. This part of figuration was provided with fingering also by Fontana in EE; however, he suggested transferring the hand instead of a cross-over over the 1st finger. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: EE revisions , Differences in fingering , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEH

b. 122-124

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

Fingering written into FES

No fingering in FE (→GE1GE2)

Fingering in EE

Fingering in GE3

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The fingering given by Fontana certainly overlaps with Chopin's indications in FES, in which the 1st finger crossing under on the 3rd semiquaver of each half of the bar was not indicated, yet performing all analogous figures with the same fingering was underlined. The digits in GE3 may indicate the same fingering; however, they allow for the use of different fingers at the transition between bars 122 and 123 (most probably 3212 starting from the penultimate semiquaver in bar 122). Next to bar 56, it is the only example of a fingering added by the reviser of GE3 in this movement of the Concerto

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Annotations in FES

b. 125

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

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES