FESf - Schiffmacher copy
| Publisher: | Brandus et Cie |
| Date: | (1853-1859) |
| Plate number: | M.S. 2494 |
| Title: | Scherzo |
| Dedication: | Mademoiselle Adèle de Furstenstein |
A copy of FE2 from a collection belonging to Joseph Schiffmacher, who could have been Chopin's pupil*. The collection contains Chopin's pieces featuring annotations added by the composer's hand, certainly or highly likely – Concerto in E minor, Op. 11 (FEH) and Bolero, Op. 19 (FESf). It allows us to assume that the variants entered into the copy of the Scherzo, i.e. melodic in b. 522 (g
2 lowered to g2) and harmonic in b. 550 (root C of the chord lowered to C
), may be authentic, despite them not having been written by Chopin, since FE2 was most probably released after Chopin's death**.
Apart from the aforementioned variants, FESf contains numerous fingerings and a number of other entries, e.g.:
- corrections of printing mistakes or inaccuracies – added ties, e.g. in b. 6-7, 266-268, 271-274,
over the mordent in b. 74, 
raising a3 to a3 in b. 477, lowering c3 to c3 in b. 493 and 521, naturals raising g
2-g3 to g2-g3 in b. 706, 8a in b. 262, change of c to d in b. 142, b1 to g1 in b. 307, - additions facilitating à vista performance, e.g. cautionary accidentals (b. 172, 316, 332, 418, 434, 478, 492, 521, 537, 728) or names of notes next to the lowest bass notes (e.g. 6 notes on p. 14 of the copy, b. 466-488),
- performance indications –
in b. 436 and 
in b. 444.
The annotations were being performed with pencil or in ink, which suggests that they were being added at a different time. Moreover, they are not homogeneous in terms of handwriting; the majority of the signs written in ink bear a strong resemblance to Chopin's handwriting, which may suggest that they were copied from another copy with the composer's annotations.
The entries from this copy that are not confirmed by other sources were not included in the main text.
* as suggested by J. J. Eigeldinger, Chopin vu par ses élèves, Paris 2006.
** approximate dating after Annotated Catalogue online, 31-1a-BR. The address of the publisher provided for on the title page was up to date from January 1851 (Anik Devriès, François Lesure: Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français, vol. II: 1820–1914, Geneva 1988).
| Original in: | Collection of Jan Marisse Huizing, Assen |
| Shelf-mark: | None |
