Frédéric Chopin

Prelude op. 28 No. 4 Mi Mineur

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The book of twenty-four Preludes Opus 28 was composed for the most part before Frédéric Chopin and George Sand's stay in Majorca during the winter of 1838-39. The composer's great role model here is Johann Sebastian Bach. Chopin took the Well-Tempered Clavier, the Preludes and the Fugues of the Leipzig Cantor with him to Mallorca, where he admired them above all else, and played a page of them for himself before each concert.
The fourth Prelude in E minor, justly famous as the "sweet lament" with its long phrasing and regular accompaniment of descending chromatic chords, is imbued with an emotional gravity.