ExclusiveChopin: Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 20 'Funeral March'

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Frédéric Chopin: Preludes, Op. 28 - No. 20 'Funeral march'. 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.

Frédéric Chopin: Prelude No. 4 in E Minor (“Largo”)Prelude No. 4 in E Minor (“Largo”), one of Frédéric Chopin's 24 Preludes from Op. 28; from a 1946 recording by pianist Arthur Rubinstein.

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. Source: britannica.com

It is not often that we choose a special date for a piece of music.

Today is the 80th anniversary of 27 January 1945, the day on which the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp and the other two Auschwitz concentration camps were liberated by the Red Army in the last year of the Second World War. The United Nations proclaimed 27 January as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust in 2005.

In Germany, 27 January has been a national day of remembrance since 1996, when it became a statutory day of remembrance.
It is now also observed in many European countries.

This castle (which houses the Natural History Museum) in Bern was filmed by Christian Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.



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