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. Chopin did not correct FC. As a whole, the copyist duplicated the text of A carefully, nonetheless making a significant number of mistakes, e.g.:
- he omitted all performing indications in b. 1 except the slur –
, 6 accents, staccato dot and pedal markings, - omitted the
before the 10th semiquaver in b. 4, before the 7th semiquaver in b. 22 and third in b. 23, - in b. 17 he omitted the arpeggio mark, while the f note in the chord was written too low, hence it looks like e
, - omitted the
mark in b. 21, whereas the 
mark was entered a bar too late, i.e. in b. 23, - omitted L.H. slurs in b. 29-30 and 32,
- omitted the majority of the performing indications in b. 40-45 – slur, accent, staccato dots as well as cresc. and
.
For a list of more important flaws of FC in the whole Op. 28 see Prelude in C no. 1.
In the Prelude in B minor, Fontana did not notice any of the inaccuracies concerning accidentals mentioned in the description of A.
The pencilled additions visible in a few places – in b. 22-23 naturals before b1 and b2, in b. 45 bass clef before the L.H. crotchet – come from a long-time owner of the manuscript, Hermann Scholtz, editor of a collective edition of Chopin's works at the Peters company (Leipzig, 1879).
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | F. 503 |
