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. Dating FC – see Prelude in C, no. 1. As a whole, the copyist duplicated the text of A in this Prelude carefully (he also added the  restoring a1 in b. 13 overlooked by Chopin), nonetheless making a number of mistakes:

  • he erroneously prolonged the slur ending in b. 6,
  • he replaced the non-slashed grace note with a slashed one in b. 15,
  • he standardised the L.H. chords on the 2nd and 3rd beats of b. 15.

Chopin did not correct FC.

Original in: The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw
Shelf-mark: F. 503