Raoul Koczalski: Prelude ,

It is a set of 24 quite interesting preludes. I’m not a fan of every one (which is why I don’t plan to play the whole set), but there are some really characteristic ones. This one appears to have some arabic influences. If you continue to read you see he was a virtuso. It’s really interesting to me that the preludes are not hard to play, most I would say are even just easy to play. (from the technical point) Koczalski (1884-1948) was a Polish pianist and composer. He also used the pseudonym Georg Armand(o) Koczalski. Having made his first public appearance in 1888 (aged 4), his parents took him to play for Anton Rubinstein, who foresaw the possibility of a performing career. He never studied at a conservatory but had further private lesson on the piano and in composition with Ludwig Marek (1891–1892), Karol Mikuli (1893–1895) (Chopin’s favorite Polish student and assistant) and instrumentation with Henryk Jarecki (1893–1894). At the age of 7 he gave concerts, and at 9 he was playing