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Op. 2, Variations, complete

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Issues : GE revisions

b. 57

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No fingering in AsI & A (→GE1→FE1,FESB)

Fingering in GE2 (→GE3,FESB)
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The fingering added by GE2 (→GE3,FESB), although very natural in this bar, probably does not come from Chopin. It is indicated by the fingering entered into b. 55-56 and 58, probably by the same person yet less artful; more importantly, it is contrary to the Chopinesque fingering present in similar places in his other works.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of GE

b. 58

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No fingering in AsI & A (→GE1→FE1,EE)

Fingering in GE2 (→GE3,FESB)

Fingering in GE2 (→GE3,FESB)

Fingering – to this bar final version only – in GE2 (→GE3,FESB)
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The authenticity of the fingering added in this bar seems very problematic. Both the choice of the notes provided with digits and the fingering are questionable:

  • it is unclear why the indications appear only just here and why (despite the fact that the first group of digits does not define any pattern that could be continued) the fingering was abandoned and then resumed in a place that stands out only due to the fact that the second out of the notes provided with a digit is written with an error (no );
  • b. 17 and 73-74 of the Etude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12 contain a L.H. figuration symmetrical to the discussed part of the roulade. The Chopinesque fingering that can be found there could be therefore used in b. 58 of the Variations: 
    As one can see, it is fundamentally different from the one provided in GE2.

Taking into account the above reservations and the incompliance of the fingering of GE2 with the Chopinesque one also in other situations (cf. b. 55-56), in the main text we do not include this fingering.

category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: GE revisions , Authentic corrections of GE

b. 60

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

No fingering in A (→GE1→FE,EE)

Fingering in GE2 (→FESB,GE3)
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Errors in GE , GE revisions

b. 60

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

leggier. in AsI, contextual interpretation

delicato in A (→GE1→FE,EE,GE2→FESB)

delicato in GE3
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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources; Corrections & alterations; Source & stylistic information

issues: GE revisions , Centrally placed marks

b. 60

composition: Op. 2, Variations, complete

in A

 in GE (→FE,EE,FESB)
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category imprint: Differences between sources

issues: Scope of dynamic hairpins , GE revisions