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Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, are a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839. Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839, mostly in Paris, but partially at Valldemossa, Mallorca, where he spent the winter of 1838–39 and where he, George Sand, and her children went to escape the damp Paris weather. [1]
Op. 1, Rondo in C minor (1825) Op. 2, Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" from Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, in B ♭ major, for piano and orchestra (1827) Op. 3, Introduction and Polonaise brillante in C major for cello and piano (1829) Op. 5, Rondo à la mazur in F major (1826) Op. 6, 4 Mazurkas (1830) Mazurka in F ♯ minor; Mazurka in C ...
For example, in Alkan’s 25 Preludes, Op. 31, the sequence of keys moves alternately up a fourth and down a third: the major keys take the odd-numbered positions in the cycle, proceeding chromatically upwards from C to C again, and each major key is followed by its subdominant minor. Yet others used no systematic ordering.
A prelude (German: Präludium or Vorspiel; Latin: praeludium; French: prélude; Italian: preludio) is a short piece of music, the form of which may vary from piece to piece. [1] [2] While, during the Baroque era, for example, it may have served as an introduction to succeeding movements of a work that were usually longer and more complex, it may also have been a stand-alone piece of work ...
This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
Only the opus numbers 1 to 72 were assigned by Mendelssohn, the later ones by publishers. ... Op. 37, 3 Preludes and Fugues for organ (1837) No. 1 Prelude and Fugue ...
In 1901, Rachmaninoff wrote his Prelude in G minor.This was not published until he had completed nine more preludes in 1903, the set of 10 becoming his Op. 23. These were all in different keys, none of which was C ♯ minor, but it is not known whether he fully intended by this time to eventually complete the full complement of 24 preludes in different keys, to emulate earlier examples by Bach ...
Rachmaninoff – Preludes, Op. 23; Sarasate's Spanish Dances, Book III; Schumann – Nachtstücke; Scriabin – Piano Sonata No. 3; Sibelius – Songs for Mixed Chorus from the 1897 Promotional Cantata, song cycle for soloists and mixed choir (arranged 1898) Strauss – Macbeth; Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1; Widor – Surrexit a mortuis