FC - Fontana's copy


Date: (II-III) 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. he overlooked a R.H. slur in bars 9-10 or a  hairpin in bars 17-18 and, first of all, he wrote cresc. instead of dim. in bar 31 (for a list of more important flaws of FC in the whole Op. 28 see Prelude in C no. 1). In bar 9 Fontana wrote in a  raising c1 to c1, overlooked by Chopin. Chopin did not correct FC.
The  raising c2 to c2 in bar 7 was added by the long-time owner of the manuscript, Hermann Scholtz (for his other additions see Prelude in C no. 1).

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