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Technical Notice
| Classical Composer: | Franck, César |
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| Work: | Prélude, choral et fugue (Prelude, Chorale and Fugue), M. 21 |
| Year Composed: | 1884 |
| Instrumentation: | pf |
| Publisher: | Editions Enoch |
| Duration: | 00:18:00 |
| Period: | Romantic |
| Work Category: | Instrumental |
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In 1884, Franck returned to composition for the piano, after a break of nearly twenty years. The Prélude, Choral et Fugue was dedicated to Marie Poitevin, who gave the first performance in 1885.
In particular Franck makes use of the cyclic procedures familiar elsewhere in his later work, with movements linked by recurrent themes and motifs. The demanding B minor Prélude of the earlier work leads to the Choral, which is only a chorale in name but is, nevertheless, largely chordal in texture and organ-like in its sonorities, making use, as the Prélude had done, of brief passages suggesting recitative. The movement is linked to the final Fugue by a brief passage in more rapid motion, before the descending fugal theme is heard, a subject later to be inverted. The movement reaches a dramatic climax in a cadenza, with its final apotheosis of the fugal subject.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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