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I begin with the preludes because I find them to be the most poetic of his work, and because I feel that it is here that he achieved the greatest variety of expression within one of his genres. ... Bach sought to write his Preludes for the keyboard so as to write something unique in each of the major and minor keys. ... The Preludes express so perfectly and succinctly anger, simple joy, confusion, rage, or merely a passing thought. ... I think the Preludes, more than any other of Chopins genres, were a quantum leap in the art of composition.
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