Description
- Composer: Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
- Binding:
- ISMN: 9790003017013
- Size: 8.3 x 11.7 inches
- Pages: 80
Description
Shostakovich wrote this set of of 24 prelude-fugue pairs for solo piano, one in each of thin E Major and Minor keys of the chromatic scale. The cycle was composed in the years 1950-51 while Shostakovich was in Moscow, and premiered by pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva in Leningrad in December 1952. It was published the same year. The complete work takes about two and a half hours to play.
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