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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 .
Twenty-Four Preludes and Fugues: Piano 1950–1951 86 Four Songs to Words by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky: Voice and piano 1950–1951 The first song, "The Motherland Hears", originally scored for solo voice and a cappella chorus. [148] 88 Ten Poems on Texts by Revolutionary Poets of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries: SATB chorus 1951
24 sets of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, with an additional 25th prelude and fugue (on a theme from Ernő Dohnányi) added at the end. Twenty-Four Etudes in All Keys Twelve Master Etudes in Minor Keys, Op. 29 Twenty-Four Variations on the Theme "Happy Birthday" 2 pianos Hans Gál: 24 Preludes, Op. 83 piano 1959–60 [cc]
Dmitri Shostakovich, 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87, 1950–51; Dmitri Kabalevsky, 6 Preludes and Fugues for piano, Op. 61, 1958–59; Rodion Shchedrin, 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano, composed in 1964 and 1970; Igor Rekhin (b. 1941 in Tambov, Russia), 24 Preludes and Fugues for solo Guitar, 1990; Sergei Slonimsky, 24 Preludes and Fugues for ...
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.
Shostakovich's Piano Quintet opens with a "Prelude": a construction in ternary form that fuses neo-Baroque and Romantic elements. [15] The choice of title was not invoked out of convenience, but as a token of the composer's deep engagement with Baroque music.
The two major primary sources for this collection of Preludes and Fugues are the "London Original" (LO) manuscript, dated between 1739 and 1742, with scribes including Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena and his oldest son Wilhelm Friedeman, which is the basis for Version A of WTC 2, [34] and for Version B, that is the version published by the 19th ...