FC - Fontana's copy
| Date: | (VIII⇒) 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 he made a very serious mistake in this Prelude, overlooking bars 78-79 (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.
As in the case of a few other situations (in the Preludes in G No. 3, in D No. 5, in A
No. 17), Fontana used an abridged version of notation where Chopin wrote out the text in extenso, marking b. 9-10 as a repetition of b. 1-2.
In addition to the aforementioned oversight of bars in the ending of the piece, in FC we can find a number of changed or overlooked slurs, e.g. in b. 4-9, 28, 31-37, 61-64,
In a few places Fontana added accidentals overlooked by Chopin, e.g. naturals in b. 29-32. He also added – contrary to A – staccato dots to the L.H. chords in b. 53-56 (perhaps by mistake).
The 
visible in b. 23, lowering c
2 to c2, was entered by a long-time owner of the manuscript, Hermann Scholtz (to see his other additions – see the Prelude No. 1 in C major). The same applies to the sharps before the last quaver in b. 30.
| Original in: | The Fryderyk Chopin Institute Library, Warsaw |
| Shelf-mark: | F. 503 |
