In the main text we take into account the fingering entered – most probably by Chopin – into FED. In this place it is of a reminding nature – the scheme with thumb on d1 was already indicated in b. 28 – and would be more justified a half of a bar earlier or later. However, it does not have to mean that the composer committed a mistake – similar situations, when the fingering was not written for the first time, but only just in one of the repetitions of a given figure, can often be found in the Chopinesque teaching entries, e.g. in the Impromptu in A
Major, Op. 29, b. 12 or in the Etude in F Minor, Op. 25 No. 2, b. 3-4. In turn, we do not include the entry in FES, since its interpretation as a fingering digit is uncertain. The inauthentic, although most probably compliant with the Chopinesque idea, L.H. fingering given in EE would be – like the entry in FED – more justified in the 1st half of the bar.
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issues: Annotations in teaching copies, EE revisions, Annotations in FED, Annotations in FES
notation: Fingering