Here is Mikuli:
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Kullak's is exactly the same as above. It is the so-called Chopin
fingering, as contrasted with the so-called Czerny fingering--
though in reality Clementi's, as Mr. John Kautz contends. "In the
latter the third and fifth fingers fall upon C sharp and E and F
sharp and A in the right hand, and upon C and E flat and G and B
flat in the left." Klindworth also employs the Chopin fingering.
Von Bulow makes this statement: "As the peculiar fingering
adopted by Chopin for chromatic scales in thirds appears to us to
render their performance in legatissimo utterly unattainable on
our modern instruments, we have exchanged it, where necessary,
for the older method of Hummel. Two of the greatest executive
artists of modern times, Alexander Dreyschock and Carl Tausig,
were, theoretically and practically, of the same opinion. It is
to be conjectured that Chopin was influenced in his method of
fingering by the piano of his favorite makers, Pleyel and Wolff,
of Paris--who, before they adopted the double echappement,
certainly produced instruments with the most pliant touch
possible--and therefore regarded the use of the thumb in the
ascending scale on two white keys in succession--the semitones EF
and BC--as practicable.
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