Op.17 - 7 Preludes

Set of seven pieces :
No.1 : Allegretto (D minor)
No.2 : Presto (E♭ major)
No.3 : Andante (D♭ major)
No.4 : Lento (B♭ minor)
No.5 : Prestissimo (F minor)
No.6 : Andante doloroso (B♭ major)
No.7 : Allegro assai (G minor)
The first prelude is composed of gracious volutes in melancholic textures.
The third, as the No.1 from Op.16, reflects a rather impressionistic color, full of subtle resonance and light, vaguely reminiscent of Debussy.
The fifth, strangely enough, sounds much more like an etude, and might be a conscious pastiche of Chopin’s Etude No.11 op.25.