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Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

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Issues : Annotations in FED

b. 15-16

composition: Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

Fingering written into FED

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering

Our variant suggestion
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In the main text we combine the complementary or compliant fingering versions of FED and FES. Some of the entries of FED are not obvious – in the interpretation we adopted we include both the shape of the very marks and the pianistic naturalness of the fingering they describe. Wherever the fingering versions entered into both copies differ, we give both versions in a variant form (the last quaver in b. 15).

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

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

b. 15

composition: Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

Fingering written into FES

No teaching fingering
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The 3rd finger on d2 indicated in FES can be seamlessly combined with the fingering in the further part of this bar, in which the entries of FED and FES are highly compliant – see the next note. However, the fingering written in the previous bar in FED indicates that it is the 2nd finger that should be used on that note, which is even clearer in b. 16-17. However, since the 2nd finger was not explicitly indicated and since the 3rd finger can also be easily combined with the previous fingering, we include it in the main text.
NB: There is a small, diagonal line over the discussed note in FED; it resembles a 1. As was the case with b. 4, one can have doubts whether it is actually a fingering digit, since if we assume the default legato articulation, the 1st finger (contrary to the entry in FES) would hamper natural phrasing here.

category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

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

b. 16-18

composition: Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED

b. 19

composition: Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

Crotchet g in A (→FC)

No crotchets in FE (→EE1) & GE

Crotchets g & a in FED, FES & EE2
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The stem prolonging the g quaver was overlooked both in FE (→EE1) and GE). Chopin added it in FED and FES; moreover, in both copies he also prolonged the last a quaver. We consider that addition, most probably introduced independently in each of the copies, a development of the original idea and adopt it to the main text.
It remains a mystery how the reviser of EE2 found out about those prolonged notes. 

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , EE revisions , Errors in FE , Annotations in FED , Errors in GE , Annotations in FES

b. 22

composition: Op. 28 No. 15, Prelude in D♭ major

Fingering written into FED

No teaching fingering
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Annotations in teaching copies , Annotations in FED