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Op. 11, Concerto in E minor, Mvt II

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b. 114

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

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FES

b. 116

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

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES, contextual interpretation

Fingering written into FEH

Fingering based on FES & FED

No teaching fingering
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In the main text, we suggest a compilation of complementary Chopin's entries performed in pencil in FED and FES. J. Stirling probably wanted to enhance with ink the second out of four ones written in her copy, over the g1 note ending the 3rd beat of the bar, which would indicate the fingering scheme of the entire 2nd half of the bar. However, she committed a mistake and wrote it a semiquaver too far, over the first e2 in the 7th triplet (cf. notes in bar 91 and 108).
The entry in FEH defines the same fingering. 

category imprint: Interpretations within context; Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED , Annotations in FES , Annotations in FEH

b. 117

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

Fingering written into FEH, probable reading

No teaching fingering
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The fingering in FEH raises doubts concerning the interpretation of the first digit applying to e3. It seems that it is a '1,' but it would be inconsistent with the fingering of an identical place in bars 120-121 written in this copy – the 1st finger on the last g2 in bar 120 (116) implies another, most probably the 2nd finger on the next note (e3). The second finger on that e3 also follows from the fingerings of the previous bar in other pupils' copies. The discussed doubt and contradictions make us omit this entry in the main text.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

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

b. 117-118

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

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

Fingering based on FED & FES
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In the main text, we suggest the fingering of FED, extended with a complementary entry in FES in the ending of bar 117. In the first half of the bar, the interpretation of the digits in FED is impeded by corrections – one can see that initially it contained different digits that were then "converted" to the set we suggest. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 118

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

Fingering written into FEH

No teaching fingering

Fingering in EE
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The use of the 1st finger on the only white key of this passage is the most natural fingering of this figuration, hence it having been originated by Chopin is difficult to prove in EE and FEH. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

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