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