These Etudes are deliberately presented without fingering for the following reasons: It is only logical that a single set of fingering will not suit all shapes and sizes of hand. Some modern editors try to get round this by piling different fingerings on top of one another, which only serves to add to the confusion” Music then startsto resemble some strange mathematics, producing an inexplicable phenomenon, whereby the fingers unaccountably multiply.The story of Mozart who, as a child prodigy on