Prelude and Fugue in e minor, no 4, WHO is the COMPOSER? :(

[katarina111]

I'm playing this prelude and fugue in e minor, no 4, but I can't find the name of the composer. I tried everything, from imslp, google, youtube, to shazam and I found - nothing.  Please, if you know who is composer, let me know.

Thanx!

[yohankwon]

Looks like shosty

[tdawe]

Shostakovich. Fantastic piece! Which edition is that, by the way? It's rather different from my own.

[katarina111]

I thought that this is Shostakovich, but i found sheets, and it's not it. His prelude and fugue is longer...this is just page and a half. I don't know...i tried Mendelsohn, Shostakovich, R. Shchedrin, S. Slonimsky, F.Fischer...and it is none of them. I'm starting to think that I'm insane

[j_menz]

It's definitely not Shostakovich. I can't say I recognise it, though (but I'm pretty bad at that anyway).  There are a vast number of lesser known soviet era composers who are pretty much unknown here, so it could well be one of them.

[tdawe]

Wow, I apologise. I gave this a (very!) quick glance and saw some superficial similarities and gave it up as Shostakovich straight away... how embarrassing. You're right, it clearly isn't Shostakovich's from Op. 87; as to the real composer I'm afraid I am clueless.

[j_menz]

Wow, I apologise. I gave this a quick glance and saw some superficial similarities and gave it up as Shostakovich straight away... how embarrassing.

Don't feel bad. If it's from a set of 24 it uses the same key sequence (different to Bach's) and there are some similarities.  I suspect Dmitri started a bit of a fad.

[tdawe]

Perhaps worse when considering I am writing a dissertation on unitive elements within Shostakovich's cycle... (and the subject from the 4th fugue is extremely important!)

[j_menz]

Perhaps worse when considering I am writing a dissertation on unitive elements within Shostakovich's cycle... (and the subject from the 4th fugue is extremely important!)

In that case...