FED - Dubois copy


Publisher: Adolphe Catelin et Cie
Date: 1846-1848
Plate number: Ad. C. (560) et Cie
Title: 24 Préludes
Dedication: Son ami Camille Pleyel

Pupil's copy of FE2 from the collection of Chopin pieces belonging to his pupil Camille O'Méara-Dubois. FED contain a substantial number of pencilled annotations including:

  • numerous fingerings – in bars 3 and 7, 9, 11, 14-18, 22,
  • corrections of printing errors –  written into bar 12,
  • additional performance markings –  in bar 26,  in bar 44,
  • changes to the text (improvements) – additional crotchet stems for the g and a quavers at the end of b. 19, octaves changed to sixths in b. 33 and 49,
  • synchronization marks for the roulade in b. 79 and the semibreves in b. 84-85
Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. F. 980 (I, 4)