24 Preludes after Chopin

The 24 Preludes after Chopin are a set of original compositions based on textures and gestures taken from the piano original cycle of Chopin. The exercise is one of appropriation, where the objective is a symbiosis, a subtle shift from the first work. Following the stps of conceptual artists of the twentieth century ranging from Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol and Sherrie Levine, I do not seek to substitute myself to the action of the original composer, but rather to create a hybrid work.

The musical result, in a constant shifting state relative to the reference work, plays with the listener – although these Preludes can be listened to independently, these short pieces make sense if one is familiar with the original preludes, allowing a listening to the second degree. The displacement of style sometimes stays close to the original character, becomes sometimes more dramatic, sometimes humorous: a work that straddles the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as a remix.

Prelude I

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Prelude II

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Prelude III

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Prelude IV

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Prelude V

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Prelude VI

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Prelude VII

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Prelude VIII

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Prelude IX

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Prelude X

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Prelude XI

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Prelude XII 

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