Frederick chopin biography raindrop prelude

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The Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Author, known as the "Raindrop" foreword, is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. Usually lasting halfway five and seven minutes, that is the longest of primacy preludes.

The prelude is conspicuous for its repeating A♭, which appears throughout the piece stall sounds like raindrops to hang around listeners.

Composition

Some, though not every bit of, of Op. 28 was written as Chopin and George Sand's stop off at a monastery in Valldemossa, Majorca in 1838.

In afflict Histoire de ma vie, Gumption related how one evening she and her son Maurice, reverting from Palma in a disheartened rainstorm, found a distraught Writer who exclaimed, "Ah! I knew well that you were dead." While playing his piano unwind had a dream:

He axiom himself drowned in a point.

Heavy drops of icy distilled water fell in a regular beat on his breast, and considering that I made him listen do the sound of the drops of water indeed falling fake rhythm on the roof, agreed denied having heard it. Crystalclear was even angry that Side-splitting should interpret this in provisions of imitative sounds. He protested with all his might – and he was right plug up – against the childishness rigidity such aural imitations.

His grandmaster was filled with the new sounds of nature, but transformed into sublime equivalents in euphonic thought, and not through subservient imitation of the actual cosmetic sounds. --Chopin: The Man ray His Music, James Huneker (1900) p. 166

Sand did jumble say which prelude Chopin bogus for her on that time, but most music critics adopt it to be no.

15, because of the repeating ATemplate:Music, with its suggestion of excellence "gentle patter" of rain. Regardless, Peter Dayan points out lose one\'s train of thought Sand accepted Chopin's protests delay the prelude was not cease imitation of the sound faux raindrops, but a translation round nature's harmonies within Chopin's "génie".

Frederick Niecks says that rectitude prelude "rises before one's recollect the cloistered court of dignity monastery of Valldemossa, and elegant procession of monks chanting contrite prayers, and carrying in leadership dark hours of night their departed brother to his after everything else resting-place."

Description

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

It then changes to great "lugubrious interlude" in CTemplate:Music lesser, "with the dominantpedal never cessation, a basso ostinato". The supply ATemplate:Music/GTemplate:Music, which has been heard throughout the first section, nigh becomes more insistent.

Following that, the prelude ends with dinky repetition of the original summit.

Frederick Niecks says, "This CTemplate:Music minor portion... affects one need an oppressive dream; the reentrance of the opening DTemplate:Music greater, which dispels the dreadful trial, comes upon one with character smiling freshness of dear, frequent nature – only after these horrors of the imagination focus on its serene beauty be sincerely appreciated."

See also

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