24 Préludes

For the first time, Rachmaninoff's complete works for piano solo are published in eight volumes. The practical urtext editions with unreduced musical text from the Rachmaninoff Critical Edition contain detailed information on the history of the compositions, world premieres and publications as well as notes on the editorial principles and the characteristic features of Rachmaninoff's piano notation.A must for the meticulous study of Rachmaninoff's preludes!Volume 3 of the practical urtext editions of the complete works for piano by Sergei Rachmaninoff for the first time also contains in its appendix first versions and variants of entire preludes as well as original variants by the composer of individual text fragments.Based on the unreduced musical text from the Rachmaninoff Critical Edition, the edition also contains a detailed preface, information on the history of the compositions and colour facsimile reproductions of autograph manuscripts.