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 the dynamic marks in b. 1-2, the accents in b. 16 and 21, the beam marking the tremolo in b. 33, the R.H. slurs in b. 35-36, the 
raising b
to b in b. 47. At the beginning of b. 21 FC includes a wrong dot extending the c
2 crotchet in the top voice (for a list of more important flaws of FC in the whole Op. 28 see Prelude in C no. 1). Chopin did not correct FC.
In two places Fontana corrected defects of A – he added a 
raising g1 to g1 in the L.H. chord in b. 49 as well as 
in b. 65. He also added 
marks in b. 24-25, although in this case they could have been omitted on purpose in A.
The pencilled additions visible in a few places – in b. 26 a before d1, in b. 33 a tremolo beam, in b. 44 a before c1, in b. 53 two naturals before a – come from a long-time owner of the manuscript, Hermann Scholtz, editor of the collective edition of Chopin's works in the Peters company (Leipzig 1879).
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | F. 503 |
