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In FE (→GE1→GE2), there are two digits under the first two semiquavers, 1 and 3. The latter may be considered to be a fingering digit or a triplet marking, since in those editions both were engraved in the same font. However, the former seems to be much more likely:
- placing both digits under subsequent notes, i.e. close to each other, naturally prompts us to interpret them as marks of the same category, which the first digit determines as fingering;
- Chopin hardly ever marked semiquaver triplets with a digit; he was generally satisfied with them being separated with beams – FE does not contain any such marking in this movement of the Concerto, cf. also, e.g. the 2nd movement of the Concerto from bar 105 or the Etude in G
Major, Op. 10 No. 5.
Taking into account the above, we interpret the number three as fingering, like it was already done in EE. The absence of the digit in GE3 may be a mistake.
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notation: Fingering
