Prelude is a musical composition played as an introduction to other music, or before a play or an opera (see Overture). The first movement of a sonata or a suite may be called a prelude. In the Preludes and Fugues of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, each prelude prepares the listener for the fugue that follows. The preludes of the Polish-born composer Frédéric Chopin and those of Claude Debussy of France and Sergei Rachmaninoff of Russia are self-contained compositions for solo piano.
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