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Lightly used Preludes provided the canvas upon which a generation of street-performance masterpieces were painted just before being confiscated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

This opera and “Parsifal” are also musically related — particularly in their Preludes, Nézet-Séguin said.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

Before performing his own spellbinding setting of Carl Sandburg’s 1920 poem “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind,” he recited the poem in its rat- and lizard-infested entirety.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2022

“The past is a bucket of ashes,” so begins, italics and all, Michael Tilson Thomas’ “Four Preludes on Playthings of the Wind.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2018

Most of the Preludes in the Well-tempered Clavier as well as a number of movements in the Suites are of this character.

From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus