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Fantasia C Minor BWV 906
Three-part sonata form piece, composed by Johann Sebastian Bach sometime during his tenure in Leipzig (1723–1750). The piece is notable for being one of Bach's latest compositions in the prelude and fugue. It survives with an unfinished fugue. The fugue is abruptly stopping 47-measures into the movement. Because the work exists in a fair-copy autograph, it is possible that Bach had completed the work in an earlier draft. Like the preceding movement, the fugue is highly chromatic and contains hand-crossing figures.
NOVELETTE IN C MAJOR
Novelette in C Major is one of the "Trois novelettes" series, composed by Francis Poulenc in 1927. This piece is dedicated to Virginie Liénard, a family friend. Also, the dedicatee of Poulenc's piano suite, "Soirées de Nazelles". The piece features a neo-classical song-like melody interrupted by a central contrasting section.
BALLADE NO.4 IN F MINOR, Op.52
Ballade no.4 in F minor was composed by Frederic Chopin in 1842. The work was dedicated to Baroness Rothschild, wife of Nathaniel de Rothschild, who had invited Chopin to play in her Parisian residence, where she introduced him to the aristocracy and nobility. In the preface to his edition of Chopin's ballades, Alfred Cortot claims that the inspiration for this ballade is Adam Mickiewicz's poem The Three Budrys, which tells of three brothers sent away by their father to seek treasures, and the story of their return with three Polish brides.