FED - Dubois copy


Publisher: Maurice Schlesinger
Date: 1843-1848
Plate number: M.S. 1926
Title: Grande polonaise brillante précédée d'un Andante spianato
Dedication: Madame d'Est

A copy from a collection belonging to Chopin's pupil, Camille O'Méara-Dubois. It contains a few annotations performed in pencil and coming from Chopin, including some most probably written by his hand. They almost exclusively concern the fingering – b. 5, 17, 27, 29, 36 and 41. Therefore, it is the entry in b. 1 that stand out, which indicates a slightly lower value of the metronome tempo. It is one of two such annotations in teaching copies (the second applies to the Nocturne in A Major, Op. 32 No. 2).

Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. F. 980 (II, 16)