FES - Stirling copy


Publisher: Adolphe Catelin et Cie
Date: 1844-1849
Plate number: Ad. C. (560) et Cie
Title: 24 Préludes
Dedication: Son ami Camille Pleyel

Copy of FE2 from the collection of Chopin pieces belonging to his pupil Jane Stirling. FES contains a substantial number of pencilled annotations including:

  • numerous fingerings – in bars 1-5, 9, 11, 15-16,
  • corrections of printing errors –  written into bar 12,
  • additional performance markings –  in bars 21-22,
  • 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.
Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. Vma 241 (IV,28 II)