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DS 0020

Eight Preludes
Opus 2

Form
Eight short pieces for piano:

  1. G minor
  2. G major
  3. E flat minor
  4. B flat major
  5. A minor - Allegro
  6. F minor
  7. D flat major
  8. D flat major

Composed
1919-20, at Petrograd

Dedicated to
1. Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev
2, 3, 4, and 5. Mariya Dmitrievna Shostakovich
6, 7, and 8. Natalya Kube

First performance
15 July 1926, Kharkov
by Dmitri Shosakovich

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