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I didn't really understand how to derive it at that time. Technically it isn't that difficult and the speed is up to you to determine and I believe the slower you go in certain parts really bring out more feeling in this pieceīut the challenge was the phrasing and legato of the piece. I flipped through the pages of a freshly bought literature book and thought visibly this was easy enough to learn. Raindrop was a piece I learned when I first got back to the piano in 2007. And get the Preludes recording performed by Samson Francois

You know, if you will not try, you will never know, but if you will few after some tries, that this is far beyond (I do not mean hard, or demaning, I mean exactly what I wrote - far beyond). There are also very suble rubatos, and other things. You know, I do not want to discourage you, but just wanted to point out some maim problems. Will you handle the crescendo, which will last over few bars and last like 20 seconds? Will you be able to play tiny little quiet drops of Aflat key, while playing big octaves in the same time? Are you able to play two voices simultaneously in one hand? They are quite different, so thus I am talking about it.īut, hey, you know, studying the editions, is for some extreme pure pianinsts, I've never bothered about it, unless there are some really major changes.Īnd yes, the 15th Prelude it's much more difficult than the previous one, both techncally and musically, there are few moments which can be unpleasant for the begginer pianist.

The National Edition (this is it's name, for those one who don't know, issued on 150th anniversary of Chopin's birthday) has all white cover with written CHOPIN in the middle and then in the bottom right what is inside - preludes, polonaises and etc. The varied images, narratives, and techniques in these poems attest to the very personal nature of the listening experience, and a careful reading of this poetry offers fresh perspectives on the 'Raindrop' Prelude's genesis, meanings, and reception history.The one you posted, is Paderewski Edition, until 1999 - the only edition on which all polish (and many on the world perhaps) were learning. In addition, the poems prove the fascination of the music's biographical context: the Prelude may have been composed during Chopin's stay on the Spanish island of Majorca with novelist Aurore Dudevant, better known as George Sand. The prominence of the 'Raindrop' Prelude in poetry can be attributed in part to its popularity in the concert hall and on recordings, but it is clear that poets have also been attracted by the pictorial element suggested by the Prelude's nickname.

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Drawn by both the evocative music and the composer's compelling biography, well over one hundred poets writing in English have responded with an abundance of sonnets, quatrains, blank verse, and free verse, and at least a dozen of these poems focus on Prelude in D-flat major, Op. Music by the so-called 'poet of the piano,' Frédéric Chopin, has provided irresistible raw material for many poets of the literary kind.