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Op. 28 No. 3, Prelude in G major

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Issues : Annotations in teaching copies

b. 1-2

composition: Op. 28 No. 3, Prelude in G major

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering in FCI & A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE
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In the main text we include the fingering entered by Chopin into FES, confirmed by an equivalent entry in FED, also Chopinesque. The much more abundant fingering of EE must be inauthentic; in addition, despite its initial compliance with the Chopinesque additions, it is almost certainly different from the one envisioned by the composer (unjustified use of the fingers 4-2 a sixth apart at the end of the 1st half of b. 1).

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 28

composition: Op. 28 No. 3, Prelude in G major

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering in FCI & A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE
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In the main text we give a fingering written most probably by Chopin himself in FED. The fingering of EE starting from the 2nd beat of the bar could be combined with the Chopinesque entry; however, both Chopin and the reviser of EE had most probably a different fingering in mind:
Chopin – ,
EE      – .

category imprint: Differences between sources

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

b. 30

composition: Op. 28 No. 3, Prelude in G major

Fingering written into FED

Possible fingering in FES

No fingering in FCI & A (→FE,FC→GE)

L.H. fingering in EE
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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.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

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

b. 31-32

composition: Op. 28 No. 3, Prelude in G major

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

Fingering suggested by the editors

No teaching fingering in FCI & A (→FE,FC→GE)

Fingering in EE
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In the main text we give the complementary entries of FED and FES concerning the R.H. The fingering of both hands provided in EE, different from the Chopinesque one in the R.H. part, cannot be authentic.

category imprint: Differences between sources

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