The Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Chopin, known as the Raindrop prelude, is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. Usually lasting between five and seven minutes, this is the longest of the preludes. The prelude is noted for its repeating A-flat, which appears throughout the piece and sounds like raindrops to many listeners. Some, though not all, of Opus 28 was written during Chopin and George Sands stay at a monastery in Valldemossa, Majorca in 1838. In her Histoire de ma vie, Sand related how one evening she and her son Maurice, returning from Palma in a terrible rainstorm, found a distraught Chopin who exclaimed, Ah! I knew well that you were dead. While playing his piano he had a dream:
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 02:54:17 +0000
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