Chopins preludes are a landmark in musical evolution. Before Chopin, a prelude was mainly used as a little musical introduction before a fuga or something in the genre. Chopin was the first to write preludes detached from another musical piece, and are solo pieces by themselves. Chopin wrote 24 preludes, and published them in 1839 as opus number 28 (not including the amazing one op. 45, and not including the Ab post. one and another spurious one on F major, and not including the Devills Trill Prelude in Eb, which was reconstructed by Jeffrey Kallberg), and in each prelude he put so much uniqueness that its awe inspiring. Every prelude gives a little glimpse at an emotion felt by the composer, most of the times extreme.

Nowadays, we all know who was Chopins and admire his music, but a big question arises all the time: how would Chopin play his own compositions? We need to remember that Chopins performance abilities and fame in that area cam from no more than 30 concerts for the public. It is of course known that Chopin gave a lot of matinees to the rich people, thus gaining legendary status with the most influencing circle of art in those days.

Most of Chopins music lovers, are aware of his two piano concertos, which were written when Chopin was around 18-20 of age. Those magnificent piano pieces were Chopins way to show the world that his on par with the rest of the great composers of that time. Those two concertos were written in Warsaw, before Chopin moved to France. There is some evidence that Chopin started working in Warsaw on a concerto for two pianos and orchestra, but this work was never finished and Chopin kept it to himself. There are a number of sketches to piano works that Chopin started writing in Warsaw and later because great masterpieces, and some went to obscurity and were found as a sketch or released posthumously, most of the time against Chopins own wish.

Between 1843-1844, Chopin started working on a new masterwork, the berceuse. A berceuse, is a musical piece in 6/8, which has a lullaby characteristic. Chopin actually wanted to name this peice Variantes, because most of the piece is base on variations upon a rocking-lullaby left hand chords, but for publicity reasons, the name was altered afterwards to berceuse.