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 omitted all performing indications in b. 28-32 – pedal markings,  hairpin, cresc. - - -, slur (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 in which  is not followed by  in A, Fontana added pedal release marks – in b. 53, where  was most probably overlooked by Chopin, this addition most probably corresponds to his intention, whereas in b. 69, in the ending of the piece, it rather does not.

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