Composer : | Chopin, Frédéric (1810 - 1849) | ||||
Instrumentation : | String Quartet15 other versions | ||||
Style : | Romantic | ||||
Key : | A♭ major | ||||
Arranger : Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Copyright : | Public Domain | ||||
Added by magataganm, 04 Mar 2024 Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin,was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era, who wrote primarily for the solo piano. He gained and has maintained renown worldwide as one of the leading musicians of his era, whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation." Chopin was born in what was then the Duchy of Warsaw, and grew up in Warsaw, which after 1815 became part of Congress Poland. A child prodigy, he completed his musical education and composed many of his works in Warsaw before leaving Poland at the age of 20, less than a month before the outbreak of the November 1830 Uprising. Frédéric Chopin wrote a number of preludes for piano solo. His cycle of 24 Preludes, Op. 28, covers all major and minor keys. In addition, Chopin wrote three other preludes: a prelude in C? minor, Op. 45; a piece in A? major from 1834; and an unfinished piece in E? minor. These are sometimes referred to as Nos. 25, 26, and 27, respectively. 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. In Majorca, Chopin had a copy of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, and as in each of Bach's two sets of preludes and fugues, his Op. 28 set comprises a complete cycle of the major and minor keys, albeit with a different ordering. Most of his préludes were already finished before setting foot on Majorca, however, he did finalize them there, as referenced by him in his letters to Pleyel: "I have finished my préludes here on your little piano...". The Prélude in Ab Major (Op. 28 No. 17) Allegretto, at 90 measures long, this is one of the longer preludes and challenges the pianist with many hand crossing over maneuvers. In the middle section of the keyboard, the rhythmic 6/8 chords will be played by both thumbs and care must be taken to ensure a legato and singing melody during these crossovers. Mendelssohn was enamored with this prelude, declaring it to be "something that [he] could never have written at all." The tonic A-flat pedal never really leaves us during this six-eight meter piece, and the work concludes with eleven bass-register iterations of the pitch. Source: Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preludes_(Chopin)). Although composed for solo piano, I created this Interpretation of the Prélude in Ab Major (Op. 28 No. 17) for String Quartet (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Sheet central : | Préludes (complet) (17 sheet music) | |
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