Why You Should Listen To Chopin's Prelude

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Why You Should Listen To Chopin’s Prelude in E minor Op.28, No.4
Fredric Chopin was a 19th century composer of piano music, he wrote twenty-four preludes which are a set of short pieces made for the piano, and each one was wrote for each key on the piano and they were originally published in 1839. The piano is described as an instrument of great beauty. Originally known as the pianoforte, which is Italian for “soft-loud.” This means that the piano has a wide dynamic range and the capacity for nuance. The piano is unable to keep tone like string and woodwind instruments. The piano has the capability to have brilliant scales, arpeggios, trills, rapid passages and octaves. The pianos range spans more than seven octaves. In the hands of a good

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