Prelude, Op. 28, No. 1 (Chopin)
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The Prelude, Op. 28, No. 1, played on the piano, is the first of Chopin's preludes. It was published in 1839 and dedicated to Camille Pleyel.{{cite web|title=Preludes|url=http://www.chopinmusic.net/works/preludes/|website=Chopin Music|accessdate=30 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905062039/http://www.chopinmusic.net/works/preludes/|archive-date=5 September 2013|url-status=dead}} Pianist Vladimir de Pachmann noted this prelude as "The first one is in a style that reminds one very forcibly of Schumann."
Analysis
Marked Agitato ("agitated") and in the key of C major, this prelude is in time signature. This prelude lasts from about 40 seconds to one minute and is a mere 34 bars (or measures) long.{{cite web|title=Preludes pour le Piano|url=http://www.chopinonline.ac.uk/cfeo/browse/pageview/71888/|website=Chopin First Editions Online|publisher=Breitkopf and Haertel|accessdate=30 July 2016|pages=2|date=1839}} This prelude consists of 8-bar phrases with a coda in the end of the piece and consists of arpeggios with four-part harmony. From bars 16–20, a stretto is listed in the English and French first editions of the piece, which means increase the tempo in the piece, though this is not written in the Italian first edition.{{cite web|title=Vingt-quatre Préludes pour le Piano|url=http://www.chopinonline.ac.uk/cfeo/browse/pageview/65022/|website=Chopin First Editions Online|publisher=Breitkopf and Haertel|accessdate=30 July 2016|pages=2|date=1839}}{{cite web|title=Twenty Four Grand Preludes, through all Keys, for the Piano Forte, Op. 28
|url=http://www.chopinonline.ac.uk/cfeo/browse/pageview/65113/|website=Chopin First Editions Online|publisher=Breitkopf and Haertel|accessdate=30 July 2016|pages=2|date=1839}} Throughout the piece, the piece shifts out of C major but doesn't modulate to a different key.{{cite book|last1=Meier|first1=Marilyn Anne|title=Chopin Twenty-Four Preludes Opus 28|publisher=School of Creative Arts|location=University of Wollongong|pages=73–7|date=1993|edition=1|url=http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1947&context=theses|accessdate=30 July 2016}} According to Marilyn Anne Meier, an Australian concert pianist, the prelude should be played "…by playing the semiquavers intensely legato, not articulated and separated."
Name
Chopin did not publish any textual names for his preludes However, later pianists Alfred Cortot and Hans von Bülow created nicknames for this piece, Cortot naming this "Feverish anticipation of loved ones" and Bülow naming this "Reunion".
References
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External links
- [http://www.ourchopin.com/analysis/prelude0108.html OurChopin – Prelude Op. 28 No. 1]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtS-ZB4SGWU Chopin Prelude Op.28 No.1 in C Major Agitato Martha Argerich] On YouTube, performed by Martha Argerich
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EewC9_i2yQ Arthur Rubinstein - Chopin Prelude, No. 1, Op. 28 in C Major] On YouTube, performed by Artur Rubenstein
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