help with fingering

[broken heart is blue]

Salutations all!
I have a question about the fingering in Debussy's jardins sous la pluie.  The right hand part of bar 22, should I use 4-5  for both CE and EbG? or the easier 3-5??? Please provide me some tips about it, thanks!!!!!!!!!

[fuel925]

Fingering is subjective, there is no correct way. Whichever makes the chord/note progession easier for you is the one to use.

[pianistimo]

with difficult fingering - you can go to a music library or check some scores at a music store (or on line) and see what others have done.  you want to lead in and out of your fingering easily.  debussy is far enough down the trail that perhaps he has an edition with fingering?don't really know.

just checked an article (you may want to look) and found that debussy DID rarely write in fingerings.  he was more 'the composer' and figured that pianists would figure it out.  margurite long wrote a book entitled 'at the piano with debussy.'  maybe it explains more later on in the article. anyway: https://academics.css.edu/mcnair/McNair%20Scholarly%20Review%202003.pdf   (page 71)

manuel de falla supposedly has some good fingering for this piece (and for many of debussy's works).  www.ibla.org/events/2005_wpta_publication.php4#nancy_
scroll way down to Nancy Lee Harper and then again to where you see the subtitle FINGERING - and she compares notes with debussy's 'gardens in the rain' with de falla's  'fantasy'  it gives you some insight into fingering (adding left and right hand in places).

[broken heart is blue]

Thank you all for your advice! I'm reading that article now...very helpful, thanks pianistimo.