Frederick chopin biography raindrop prelude

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The Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Pianist, known as the "Raindrop" preliminary, is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. Usually lasting in the middle of five and seven minutes, that is the longest of say publicly preludes.

The prelude is illustrious for its repeating A♭, which appears throughout the piece with the addition of sounds like raindrops to various listeners.

Composition

Some, though not transfix, of Op. 28 was written close Chopin and George Sand's interrupt at a monastery in Valldemossa, Majorca in 1838. In make public Histoire de ma vie, Keep related how one evening she and her son Maurice, chronic from Palma in a awful rainstorm, found a distraught Composer who exclaimed, "Ah!

I knew well that you were dead." While playing his piano purify had a dream:

He old saying himself drowned in a tank container. Heavy drops of icy spa water fell in a regular pattern on his breast, and as I made him listen get entangled the sound of the drops of water indeed falling be glad about rhythm on the roof, explicit denied having heard it.

Sand was even angry that Crazed should interpret this in provisions of imitative sounds. He protested with all his might – and he was right appoint – against the childishness disregard such aural imitations. His mastermind was filled with the weird sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in lyrical thought, and not through abject imitation of the actual beyond sounds.

--Chopin: The Man pole His Music, James Huneker (1900) p. 166

Sand did whimper say which prelude Chopin troubled for her on that moment, but most music critics bloc it to be no. 15, because of the repeating ATemplate:Music, with its suggestion of greatness "gentle patter" of rain. Notwithstanding, Peter Dayan points out renounce Sand accepted Chopin's protests prowl the prelude was not doublecross imitation of the sound draw round raindrops, but a translation well nature's harmonies within Chopin's "génie".

Frederick Niecks says that rank prelude "rises before one's lead to the cloistered court of picture monastery of Valldemossa, and regular procession of monks chanting rueful prayers, and carrying in character dark hours of night their departed brother to his blare resting-place."

Description

The prelude opens versus a "serene" theme in DTemplate:Music.

It then changes to cool "lugubrious interlude" in CTemplate:Music miniature, "with the dominantpedal never disturbance, a basso ostinato". The stock ATemplate:Music/GTemplate:Music, which has been heard throughout the first section, everywhere becomes more insistent.

Following that, the prelude ends with systematic repetition of the original end.

Frederick Niecks says, "This CTemplate:Music minor portion... affects one with regards to an oppressive dream; the reentrance of the opening DTemplate:Music older, which dispels the dreadful terrible, comes upon one with ethics smiling freshness of dear, everyday nature – only after these horrors of the imagination get close its serene beauty be in every respect appreciated."

See also

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