FC - Fontana's copy


Date: (VIII⇒) 1839
Title: Vingt-quatre Préludes
Dedication: Monsieur Camille Pleyel

Copy of A made by Julian Fontana (lost, known from a photocopy) as the basis for the first German edition. As a whole, the copyist duplicated the text of A carefully, nonetheless making a number of mistakes, e.g. an overlooked staccato dot in b. 19, and inaccuracies, e.g. in the dynamic hairpins in b. 1 or 16-19 (for a list of more important flaws of FC in the whole Op. 28 see Prelude in C no. 1). Chopin did not correct FC.

The accidentals written – probably in pencil – in bar 14 were added by H. Scholtz most probably in the 70s of the nineteenth century.

Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: F. 503