{"product_id":"chopin-24-preludes-autograph-notebook","title":"Fryderyk Chopin — 24 Preludes (Majorca, 1838–39) — Notebook","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n.mtr-ficha .lede{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:20px;line-height:1.4;color:#1e1b17;margin:0 0 4px}\n.mtr-ficha .filete{width:34px;height:2px;background:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0;border:0}\n.mtr-ficha h4{font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-size:11px;font-weight:600;letter-spacing:.2em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;margin:18px 0 8px}\n.mtr-ficha p{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.66;color:#4c443b;margin:0 0 12px}\n.mtr-ficha li{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-size:15.5px;line-height:1.6;color:#4c443b}\n.mtr-ficha em{font-style:italic}\n.mtr-ficha details{margin:2px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary{list-style:none;cursor:pointer;font-family:'Ciutadella',sans-serif;font-weight:600;font-size:12px;letter-spacing:.14em;text-transform:uppercase;color:#6f5d4a;padding:6px 0}\n.mtr-ficha summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha details[open] summary{display:none}\n.mtr-ficha .prov{font-family:'Alverata',Georgia,serif;font-style:italic;font-size:12px;color:#8a8075;line-height:1.5;margin:14px 0 0}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mtr-ficha\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"lede\"\u003eThe twenty-four preludes, in Chopin's hand. Then pages of your own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"filete\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe document\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin finished the Preludes on Majorca in the winter of 1838–39, on a small piano Pleyel had shipped to the island. This is his fair copy of all twenty-four, with many corrections in his own hand, some passages covered in dense crossed lines of ink, and it is the manuscript from which the first Paris edition was engraved in 1839. It is kept at the Biblioteka Narodowa in Warsaw, and this notebook reproduces it complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eInside the notebook\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst, a short guide: the winter on Majorca and the letter that sent the Preludes to Pleyel; the twenty-four, and where each one begins in the manuscript; the two first editions and their two dedications, with Chopin's own words, \u003ci\u003eKesslerowi nic\u003c\/i\u003e, nothing for Kessler; a letter from Marseille in April 1839, translated; what he crossed out; and a drawing of him at the piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThen the manuscript: all forty-four pages, in order, at about 88% of actual size, with the three notes he left for the engraver and the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn its last page, his own blank staff paper faces the first of yours: 66 pages of staff paper, ruled after his.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA4, spiral-bound, it lies flat. The manuscript is oblong, and so is the notebook: it opens the way it does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdetails\u003e\n\u003csummary\u003eContinue reading ▾\u003c\/summary\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eThe measure\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChopin's paper carries fourteen small staves. Your pages keep its frame, from his first staff to his last, and set ten staves of 8 mm inside it, evenly spaced: room to write by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA4 landscape · 297 × 210 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSpiral-bound on the left · softcover · lies flat\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e120 pages — the guide, the manuscript (22 leaves) and 66 pages of staff paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100 gsm uncoated paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand in the USA\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/details\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"prov\"\u003eFryderyk Chopin · 24 Preludes, op. 28 · autograph · 1838–39 · Biblioteka Narodowa, Warsaw, Mus. 93 Cim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Métrica","offers":[{"title":"Staff paper","offer_id":67696140648548,"sku":"SA-NB-CHOPIN-PRELUDES-STAFF","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0661\/2202\/3012\/files\/chopin-24-preludes-autograph-notebook-v12-1.jpg?v=1791848633","url":"https:\/\/shop.metrica.art\/products\/chopin-24-preludes-autograph-notebook","provider":"Métrica","version":"1.0","type":"link"}