FC - Fontana's copy
| Date: | 1839 |
| Title: | Vingt-quatre Préludes |
| Dedication: | Monsieur Camille Pleyel |
Copy of A made by Julian Fontana (lost, photocopy held by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw). FC served as the basis for the first German edition. As a whole, the copier duplicated the A text carefully, nonetheless making a number of mistakes, the gravest of which are omissions of entire bars in Preludes in G
minor no. 12 and in B
no. 21. Chopin did not correct FC.
The defects in this Prelude include, e.g.:
- inaccurate slurs, at times clearly contrary to A, e.g. in b. 4-5, 12, 15-16, 34-39, 42-43;
- omitted
lowering f1 to f1 in b. 12; - misinterpretation of A, e.g. e1 added to f1 in b. 17;
- omission of the majority of the dynamic indications in the ending of the Prelude (b. 83-87).
Certain pencilled markings on this and some other Preludes (mainly filling in the chromatic signs, see bar 12) were made by the long-time owner of the manuscript, Hermann Scholtz, who based his own edition of the Preludes (Peters, Leipzig 1879) on the FC.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | F. 503 |
