Frédéric Chopin
2 Preludios
Short instrumentation: 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0, str
Duration: 6'
Bearbeitet von: Mauricio Sotelo
Instrumentation details:
violin I
violin I (2 players)
violin I (2 players)
violin II (2 players)
viola (2 players)
viola (2 players)
violoncello (2 players)
violoncello
double bass
2 Preludios
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Frédéric Chopin
2 Preludios
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Orchestration: für Streichorchester
Type: Dirigierpartitur
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Work introduction
The preludes op. 28 were written by Chopin on the island of Majorca. On October 27, 1938, he left Paris, along with George Sand and her two children Maurice and Solange, for Mallorca, where he hoped to recover from her ailments. Already her arrival in Mallorca was the first disappointment, as they did not find a room in any hotel and had to stay in a primitive inn. Later they went to the Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa. The winter was harsh and very rainy. The piano from Paris never arrived. The locals were neither friendly nor kind to them, and sadness and melancholy seized the composer. These preludes reflect, from my perspective, a grey atmosphere, one of infinite sadness, unlike those sunny, bright and happy lands that they imagined in Paris and whose mild winter climate should contribute to improving Chopin's health.