Gershwin George - Preludes for Piano *Multiple Breath Music The four equal flutes show

The four equal flutes show their timbres and technical possibilities without penetrating too much into the “experimental” avant-garde

Probably no one before him had composed technical practice pieces that at the same time reached such musical heights

since these concepts are not introduced until part three of the course

was very popular in a more developed form in early 19th century salons

Gershwin George - Preludes for Piano *Multiple Breath Music The four equal flutes showSome of Gershwins finest inspirations have not as yet been either published or publicly performed. It is probable that the production of his twenty four preludes will award him a still higher rank in the army of contemporary composers. In 1925, an admirer thus heralded George Gershwins ambitious project in Vanity Fair, namely to compose preludes in all keys as Bach and Chopin had done before. On 4 December of the following year, the composer publicly