Raindrops chopin wikipedia biography

The Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Chopin is known as the "Raindrop" prelude. It is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. This is the longest of the preludes.

It lasts between five and seven minutes. The prelude is famous for its repeating A-flat.

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This note appears throughout the piece. It sounds like raindrops to many listeners.^[1] It is known for it's repetitive raindrop motif.

Composition

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Some of the Preludes were written during Chopin and George Sand's stay at a monastery in Valldemossa, Majorca in 1838.

^[2] In her Histoire de ma vie, Sand told how one evening she and her son Maurice, returning from Palma, Majorca, in a terrible rainstorm, found a frantic Chopin who cried, "Ah! I knew well that you were dead." While playing his piano he had a dream:

"He saw himself drowned in a lake.

Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of w