FED - Dubois copy


Publisher: Maurice Schlesinger
Date: 1843-1848
Plate number: M. S. 2489
Title: Quatre Mazurkas
Dedication: Madame la Princesse de Wurtemberg née Princesse Czartoryska

Pupil's copy of FE1 from the collection of Chopin's pieces belonging to his pupil, Camille O'Méara-Dubois. It contains pencil additions, probably coming from Chopin:

  • Two diagonal crosses (bars 1 and 37), quite frequent in Chopinesque pupil's copies, most probably without a musical meaning – they can, for example, refer to the organisation of work on the piece (to indicate places the pupil should pay more attention to), sum up the performance of a given fragment or remind of the master's verbal indications.
  • The mark in bar 44 may be interpreted as a long accent for the gminim.
Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
Shelf-mark: Rés. F. 980 (III, 12)