The fact that Chopin suffered from tuberculosis also meant that they weren’t able to sell the ‘infected’ piano (as the locals thought). When Chopin and Georges Sand returned to France from Majorca, they couldn’t afford the extortionate Spanish taxes for the piano for the trip home.However, it took such a long time to get through the Spanish customs, he had to make do with an inferior local piano – but he still managed to compose some of his most famous pieces on it. Chopin’s favorite piano maker was Pleyel (the French builders) and, when he and Georges Sand and her children went to stay on Majorca for Chopin to recuperate from his tuberculosis, his piano was to go with him.In letters to friends, Chopin’s partner of 10 years, the writer, George Sand (her pen name), he was known affectionately by a number of terms of endearment ‘Chop Chop’, ‘Chopinet’ ‘my little grasshopper’, ‘Monsieur Velvet-fingers’ among them.The composition contains far-flung modulations and needs imagination for its presentation. 45, described by the Vancouverites as "a seldom played work of great improvisational beauty.
28, there is one more and entirely separate Prelude by Chopin: The Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. If tears could be heard, they would sound like these preludes."īesides the famous series of 24 Preludes from Op. There are among Chopin's preludes a few which breathe the spirit of contentment and grace, or of religious grandeur, but most of them are outbreaks of the wildest anguish and heart-rending pathos. He is the boldest, the proudest, poet-soul of his time." Finck feels that "if all piano music in the world were to be destroyed, excepting one collection, my vote should be cast for Chopin's Preludes. One recognizes him in his pauses, in his impetuous respiration. But in every piece we find his own hand-Frederic Chopin wrote it. James Friskin writes, "Perhaps no other collection of piano pieces contains within such a small compass so much that is at the same time musically and technically valuable." Schumann thought them "eagle's feathers, all strangely intermingled. There is a prelude for each major and minor key many of them demand high virtuosity. Within these very small frames, Chopin captures a universe of feeling and mood.
The Vancouver Chopin Society has a beautiful description of Chopin's Preludes, created during his disastrous winter of 1838/39 in Majorca, when Chopin was also studying - and editing - the Well-Tempered Clavier by one of his musical heroes: Johann Sebastian Bach:
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