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 R.H. ties in bar 1, staccato dots in bars 17, 19 and analog. or a L.H. slur in bar 34 (for a list of more important flaws of FC in the whole Op. 28 see Prelude in C no. 1). In bar 3 Fontana added a  raising f1 to f1 overlooked by Chopin. Chopin did not correct FC.

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