Genre: Prelude
Key: F-sharp minor
Opus/WN: Op. 28 No. 8
Creation date: 1831(?)-1839, kompozycja cyklu: 1838-1839
Acc. to Paderewski: I/8
Acc. to Turło: 173
Instruments: piano
The eighth Prelude in the cycle, in F sharp minor, counters the calm simplicity of the seventh with a broad stream of sonority of peculiar beauty, diffused in rising and falling waves of airy figuration. Among its admirers was Witold Lutosławski, who called it a ‘wonder’. This prelude is usually numbered among the ‘scherzotic’ preludes. It employs chromaticised figurations, proceeding at a lively tempo and with varied dynamics and articulation.
Author: Mieczysław Tomaszewski
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