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 mistakenly placed cresc. only in bar 12, and overlooked the  sign in that bar (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.

The  restoring d1 we can see in b. 8 was added by a long-time owner of the manuscript, Hermann Scholtz (his other additions – see the Prelude in C no. 1).

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