Preludes
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Product ID: BA4 8643
By Frédéric Chopin
Publisher:
Bärenreiter
Arranger:
Piano
Series:
Bärenreiter Urtext
Genre:
Classical
Line Up:
Piano (Solo: Piano)
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About this item
Chopin’s name is forevermore connected with the piano. He was a fabulous
pianist, improviser, and, of course, composer with a very unique,
personal style that is characterized by a sense of rubato, allusions to
Polish folk music, grace and melancholy contrasted by virtuosity, pride
and herioc gestures. No other cycle of works wields such an appeal as
his "Préludes op. 28". He completed them shortly before his 29th
birthday, while spending a winter in Mallorca with George Sand and her
children.
This collection of nine "Préludes" appears as part of a
series of popular works from the Bärenreiter catalogue celebrating the
100th anniversary of the publishing house. The complete Urtext edition
of the "Préludes op. 28", which includes the "Prélude op. 45" (BA09610),
offers Chopin's own fingerings and those of his pupils as well as
supplementary historically-informed fingerings and notes on historical
performance practice, specifically on the use of the pedal,
ornamentation, "finger pedaling”, latent polyphony (cantilena),
dynamics, rubato and tempo.
Instrumentation
Piano
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Composer
Frédéric Chopin (1857-1934)
Frédéric François Chopin (22 February or 1 March 1810[2] ? 17 October 1849) was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French?Polish parentage. He was one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano".
Chopin was born in ?elazowa Wola, a village in the Duchy of Warsaw. A renowned child-prodigy pianist and composer, he grew up in Warsaw and completed his musical education there. Following the Russian suppression of the Polish November 1830 Uprising, he settled in Paris as part of the Polish Great Emigration. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. From 1837 to 1847 he carried on a relationship with the French woman writer George Sand. For most of his life, Chopin suffered from poor health; he died in Paris in 1849 at the age of 39.
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