ExclusiveChopin: Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 1 'Reunion', No. 3 'Thou Art So Like a Flower', No. 4 'Suffocation'

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 1 'Reunion', No. 3 'Thou Art So Like a Flower', No. 4 'Suffocation'. This beautiful piece was played by Ivan Ilic. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED, Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Chopin Preludes, Op. 28, short solo piano pieces written between 1834 and 1839 by Frederic Chopin and intended as explorations of the characters of various keys. The iconic examples of such works are those of Johann Sebastian Bach appearing in his The Well-Tempered Clavier, much of which was composed in the 1720s. Early 19th-century composers like Chopin returned to the idea in more flexible form.

One of the most acclaimed pianists of his day, Chopin knew all of Bach’s preludes by heart; he used them diligently in his own practice sessions and also as instructional material for his piano students. When Chopin decided to write some preludes of his own in the 1830s, he took a more relaxed approach than had Bach. The German Baroque master had written one prelude in each of the major and minor keys, and then matched each with a complementary fugue, for a total of 48 individual pieces. Chopin wrote preludes only, without the greater intricacy of accompanying fugues, resulting in 24 individual pieces, 12 in the minor and 12 in the major scales, that were published together in 1839, completed while Chopin was unhappily sojourning in Majorca with his lover, the writer George Sand. Almost half of the preludes are less than a minute long, and the entire cycle—which Chopin probably never performed whole—lasts only some 45 minutes. Chopin’s discontentment with the circumstances of their composition finds its expression, by some interpretations, in the brooding closing piece, in D-minor; other scholars connect that final piece to the Russian seizure of Warsaw in 1831, and still others consider it an homage to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem. Source: britannica.com

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