24 Préludes, Op. 67

by Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Catalogue Op. 67
Composed 1814–1815
Published 1815
Works 24

Twenty-four preludes covering all major and minor keys, composed c.1814–15 and published 1815. One of the most historically important collections in the piano literature — composed over two decades before Chopin's Op.28 and almost certainly a model for it. Each prelude is a short, concentrated character piece in a single key, collectively traversing all 24 major and minor keys in a circle-of-fifths arrangement with alternating relative minors (beginning C major, A minor, G major, E minor…). The set was also a direct precursor to the 24-key prelude sets of later composers.

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