CHOPIN'S PRELUDES
Tho twenty-four Preludes by Chopin are among the most prizod of that master's piano compositions. It is not likely that lie had ,any very definite idea in. mind when he invented the title. The pieces are preludes to nothing. They are pieces en their own, account, some vory short, some longer—pieces assembled together in haphazard fashion. F. Niecks has compared them to "a portfolio of drawings in all states of advancement, finished and unfinished compositions, and sketches, and memoranda, all mixed indiscriminately together." And some of them aro as beautiful as anything Chopin wrote.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 25 July 1929, Page 7
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96CHOPIN'S PRELUDES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 25 July 1929, Page 7
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