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 dynamic markings in b. 3-7 and 22-24, R.H. slurs in b. 59-65,  in b. 41 or the bottom note of the octave (f3) in b. 70. In b. 31 in FC there is D instead of F (which is a mistake). In a few places, Fontana copied the notation of A inaccurately, e.g. the range of the slurs in b. 56-58 (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