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Frédéric Chopin: Preludes

Written partly during Chopin’s catastrophic wintertime stay on Majorca, these are some of the composer’s most mysterious works. Schumann said of them:
"They are sketches, beginnings of études, or, so to speak, ruins, individual eagle pinions, all disorder and wild confusions.”
The 24 Preludes are written in all major and minor keys in the order of the circle of fifths. The title (obviously an allusion to Bach’s preludes and fugues) can be a misleading one, as they are not introductions to anything, except possibly to the next prelude in the series – each piece is perfectly capable of standing on its own, although Op. 28 is often treated as a cycle and given a complete performance.


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Title Key Published Type Level
Prelude - op 28 no 1C Major 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 2A Minor 1834 Piece 7
Prelude - op 28 no 3G Major 1834 Piece 8
Prelude - op 28 no 4E Minor 1834 Piece 5
Prelude - op 28 no 5D Major 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 6B Minor 1834 Piece 6
Prelude - op 28 no 7A Major 1834 Piece 4
Prelude - op 28 no 8F-sharp Minor 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 9E Major 1834 Piece 6
Prelude - op 28 no 10C-sharp Minor 1834 Piece 8
Prelude - op 28 no 11B Major 1834 Piece 8
Prelude - op 28 no 12G-sharp Minor 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 13F-sharp Major 1834 Piece 8
Prelude - op 28 no 14E-flat Minor 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude (Raindrop) - op 28 no 15D-flat Major 1834 Piece 7
Prelude - op 28 no 16B-flat Minor 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 17A-flat Major 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 18F Minor 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 19E-flat Major 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 20C Minor 1834 Piece 6
Prelude - op 28 no 21B-flat Major 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 22G Minor 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 23F Major 1834 Piece 8+
Prelude - op 28 no 24D Minor 1834 Piece 8+



Posts in the piano forum about Preludes by Chopin:

xx Chopin preludes
October 13, 2009, 12:03:18 PM by thison3

I'm starting to study Chopin preludes and I've done a couple preludes before. Does anyone have a recommendation on which one i should start on?

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xx chopin preludes
October 03, 2008, 10:49:02 PM by ptyrrell

Can anyone rank the chopin preludes in order of difficulty?

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xx Chopin's "Préludes" Editions
June 29, 2008, 03:37:38 PM by rachmaninova

Hi there!

I made a search on the forum about this subject and only found out about general Chopin's works editions.
The opinions were diverse and somewhat contradictory. It seems that the better editions are Jan Ekier's, Cortot's, Paderewsky's and G. Henle (this list is not hierarchical).
However, I found on amazon.com other specific editions for Chopin's "Préludes" (the particular subject I'm interested in):

http://www.amazon.com/PRELUDES-SCHIRMER-PERFORMANCE-EDITIONS-Leonard/dp/0634084445/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214752123&sr=1-8

http://www.amazon.com/Chopin-24-Preludes-Piano-Masterwork/dp/0739004417/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1214753707&sr=1-4


Do you know these? Are they worth anything? And about the other editions I mentioned before, what do you think are the best for the Préludes?

Best regards,
Carla

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xx Chopin Preludes and DipABRSM
June 07, 2007, 06:02:24 AM by desordre

 Dear fellows:
 I have a very simple question: the Preludes by Chopin are not included in the DipABRSM syllabus, but I think some of them meet the required grade. So, what your opinion about which pair/group is best suited to that?

 By the way, do you have another non-syllabus work that is possible?

 Thanks in advance and best wishes!



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