Description
The stories surrounding Frí©dí©ric ChopinŒÍs winter holiday on Mallorca with George Sand in 1838/39 are widely known. It was there, in adverse conditions, that Chopin completed his ŒñPrí©ludesŒî op. 28 which he had alreadybegun in Paris. According to George Sand, the famous ŒñRaindrop Prí©ludeŒî (no. 15) is said to have been composed during a storm on Mallorca; howe ver, other sources show that the first sketches were already made in Paris. Our single edition has been taken from the revised edition of the ŒñPrí©ludesŒî (HN 882).