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Prelude EngK 17

Johann Kirnberger

What's this piece like?
This is a dramatic piece that creates an extraordinary effect with a clean writing and very few notes. The music alternates between the dramatic minor sections with a more dreamy and peaceful sections in major key.
Who's this piece for?
An excellent piece for beginners who are polishing their technique.
1-2 pages
Baroque
E minor

MOOD: Serious, melancholic and dramatic.

TECHNIQUE: Legato.

Ranking
Equivalent to RCM level 2
Equivalent to ABRSM level 2
Equivalent to Suzuki book 3
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1762

C.W. Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice premiered in Vienna.

1762

Mozart toured Europe as six-year-old prodigy.

1764

A French trading company establishes a trading post on the Mississippi River, to be known as St. Louis.

1764

Jean-Philippe Rameau died.

1765

Prelude was composed by J. Kirnberger at the age of 44 years old.

1768

The French explorer Louis Bougainville "discovers" Tahiti and claims it for King Louis XV of France, though it had already been sighted by Europeans.

1769

Napoleon Bonaparte was born.

1770

English explorer James Cook sights the East Coast of Australia. He lands at Botany Bay and claims the land for England.

1770

Ludwig Van Beethoven was born.

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