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Prelude

Every work whose title names this form (also counted: prélude, preludes).

Works
491
Airings
3378

Most-aired works

#WorkComposerAirings
1 Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune Claude Debussy 217
2 24 Preludes for piano, Op 28 Frédéric Chopin 107
3 Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 35 no 1 Felix Mendelssohn 80
4 3 Preludes for piano George Gershwin 72
5 La Cathédrale engloutie - from Preludes book 1 Claude Debussy 70
6 Prelude (Act 1 'Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg') Richard Wagner 66
7 Prelude, Fugue and Variation [transc. for piano, originally for organ] César Franck 65
8 Prelude for piano in C sharp minor, Op 45 Frédéric Chopin 51
9 Chorale Prelude, BWV.654 Johann Sebastian Bach 47
10 Prelude and Fugue in C major, K. 394, for piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 44
11 Prelude and Fugue for orchestra, Op 10 Toivo Kuula 42
12 Les Preludes - symphonic poem after Lamartine (S.97) Franz Liszt 42
13 Dance Preludes Witold Lutosławski 40
14 Prelude and Fugue in B flat major, Op 16 no 2 Clara Schumann 40
15 Acis and Galatea, K 566 (Overture and prelude to act II) George Frideric Handel 39
16 Prelude for guitar no 3 in A minor Heitor Villa‐Lobos 39
17 Prelude, Toccata and Allegro in G major Sylvius Leopold Weiss 39
18 Irmelin (prelude) Frederick Delius 36
19 Prelude and Allegro (for organ and orchestra) (1943) Walter Piston 36
20 Prelude and Liebestod - from the opera 'Tristan and Isolde' Richard Wagner 36
21 Prelude from Partita no 3 in E major (BWV.1006) arr. for 2 harps Johann Sebastian Bach 35
22 Prelude and fugue in E flat major BWV.552 (St Anne) orch. Schoenberg Johann Sebastian Bach 35
23 Prelude (Fantasia) in A minor, BWV 922 Johann Sebastian Bach 35
24 Symphonic Prelude Ion Dumitrescu 33
25 Prelude, theme and variations for horn and piano Gioachino Rossini 33
26 Prelude and Fugue in G minor (BuxWV.149) Dieterich Buxtehude 30
27 Prelude, Chorale and Fugue, M.21 César Franck 29
28 Night and festal music - prelude to Act II from the opera 'Die Königin von Saba' Karl Goldmark 29
29 Prelude and Gigue in A major for orchestra, Op 44 Karol Rathaus 29
30 Prelude for guitar no 1 in E minor Heitor Villa‐Lobos 29
31 Prelude in D flat major, Op 28 no 15, 'Raindrop' Frédéric Chopin 28
32 Prelude and fugue in C sharp minor Karol Szymanowski 27
33 Concert Prelude to Tristan und Isolde arranged Kocsis for piano Richard Wagner 26
34 Prelude (Allegro moderato) Milko Lazar 25
35 Prelude in C sharp minor [Bells] Sergey Rachmaninov 25
36 Guitar Preludes Nos 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Manuel Ponce 24
37 Prelude (Introduction) [string sextet] from Capriccio - opera in 1 act, Op 85 Richard Strauss 24
38 Preludes, Op 28 Nos 16-20 Frédéric Chopin 23
39 Prelude to Act 1 from Lohengrin Richard Wagner 23
40 Prelude and Fugue in C sharp, BWV 848 Johann Sebastian Bach 22
41 Suite Orientale, Op 48 no 2: Prelude & Danse d'almees Mel Bonis 22
42 Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op 9 Alexander Scriabin 22
43 24 Preludes, Op 34 Dmitry Shostakovich 22
44 Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 Johann Sebastian Bach 21
45 Prelude no 13 in D flat major [from 13 Preludes Op 32 for piano] Sergey Rachmaninov 21
46 Prelude and Scherzo Paul Jeanjean 20
47 Prelude and divisions on 'John come kiss me now' Thomas Baltzar 19
48 Preludes (excerpts books 1 & 2) Claude Debussy 18
49 Des pas sur la neige - no 6 from Preludes, Book 1 Claude Debussy 17
50 Chorale Prelude Wojciech Kilar 17