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 a few L.H. slurs in b. 7-12, staccato dots in b. 13 and 17 and, above all, entire b. 54. In b. 4 FC erroneously assigned e1 (the last L.H. quaver) to the R.H. part, and then as a crotchet. In a few places Fontana copied the notation of A inaccurately, e.g. the range of slurs in b. 1-4 (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.

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