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Prelude in C minorOp. 28 No. 20

Difficulty 4
C minor
2 min
13 measures

The twentieth of Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, published in 1839. In thirteen bars of slow chords marked Largo, a fortissimo opening sinks to piano, and its last phrase is heard twice before the closing C minor chord. Busoni and Rachmaninoff both wrote sets of variations on it. This edition follows Breitkopf & Härtel's first edition of 1839.

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