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The 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich are a set of 24 musical pieces for solo piano, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale.The cycle was composed in 1950 and 1951 while Shostakovich was in Moscow, and premiered by pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva in Leningrad in December 1952; [1] it was published the same year.
The 24 Preludes, Op. 34 is a set of short piano pieces written and premiered by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1933. They are arranged following the circle of fifths , with one prelude in each major and minor key .
Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, two complete sets of 24 Preludes and Fugues written for keyboard in 1722 and 1742, and often known as "the 48", is generally considered the greatest example of music traversing all 24 keys. Many later composers clearly modelled their sets on Bach's, including the order of the keys.
Sheppard's repertoire comprises over forty recital programs and sixty-five concerti. Recent performances of the 2014-15 season highlighted the 24 Preludes and Fugues of Shostakovich, which he performed in Houston, San Francisco, Oberlin, Shanghai, Beijing (the Forbidden City), and Seattle's Meany Theater.
His solo piano works include two sonatas, an early set of 24 preludes, and a later set of 24 preludes and fugues. Stage works include three completed operas and three ballets. Shostakovich also wrote several song cycles, and a substantial quantity of music for theatre and film. Shostakovich's reputation has continued to grow after his death.
Selected by Shostakovich from the Eight Preludes as his contribution to an incomplete collaborative cycle of 24 preludes in all keys composed with fellow students Grigori Klements and Pavel Feldt. [12] Orchestration of the first movement from Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 32: Orchestra 1921–1922 Partially lost [12]
[13] [14] [11] The song includes quotes from the Prelude No. 15 in D ♭ major from Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues [15] and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades. [12] It also includes allusions to Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto. [2]
Note also that Shostakovich followed Chopin, not Bach, in the progression of keys - I think it is safe to assume that Shostakovich was aware of Chopin's Preludes. Also Shostakovich's earlier set of 24 Preludes, op.34, was written in 1932, many years before the Leipzig competition in 1950. -- Solipsist 16:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
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