FED - Dubois copy


Publisher: Maurice Schlesinger
Date: 1843-1848
Plate number: M.S. 1935
Title: Deux Nocturnes || Nocturne II
Dedication: Madame la Comtesse d'Appony

Copy of the earliest impression of FE1, from the collection of Chopin’s works belonging to his pupil Camille Dubois. It contains several annotations pencilled in by the composer: changes of dynamic markings, fingerings, a variant in bar 28 and probably in bar 21, an octave reinforcement of bass notes in bars 49 & 59, lines precising the execution of ornaments and others.

Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. F. 980 (II, 3)