Gershwin Preludes for Piano (Henle)

“Some of Gershwin’s finest inspirations have not as yet been either published
or publicly performed. It is probable that the production ofhis twenty-four
preludes … will award him a still higher rank in the army of contemporary
composers.” In 1925, an admirer thus heralded George Gershwin’s 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 performed five of these pieces. However, the extremely busy darling
of Broadway only published the famous three Preludes for Piano (1927) during
his lifetime. We are now proud to present them for the firsttime in a state-
of-the-art Urtext edition.

Contents:

• Preludes for Piano no. 1
• Preludes for Piano no. 2
• Preludes for Piano no. 3