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Five Preludes
Sans op. B

Form
Five preludes for piano,
selected by the composer from eight (Opus 2) contributed to a projected collection of twenty-four written in collaboration with fellow-students Pavel Feldt and Georgi Klements:

  1. No.2 in A minor -- Allegro moderato e scherzando (Opus 2 No.5)
  2. No.3 in G major -- Andante (Opus 2 No.2)
  3. No.4 in E minor -- Allegro moderato
  4. No.15 in D flat major -- Moderato (Opus 2 No.7 or 8)
  5. No.18 in F minor -- Andantino (Opus 2 No.6)

Composed
1919-20, at Petrograd

Arrangements
Nos. 1 and 2 transcribed for wind orchestra by Alfred Schnittke in 1976.

First performance
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