"Tragic Hero" Chopin

Chopin, a prominent composers of the romantic period in the19th century, as a few almost exclusively in the field of piano has outstanding achievement and leave the world a lot of great works of genius, his feat of piano music in the world is permanent, immeasurable in the history of music. In the vast piano composer, as one of the highest representative of the piano works, he represents an era of the history of western music, a kind of style, a milestone. His works in the field of professional piano is immortal. Chopin’s creation of the "twenty-four preludes"(no.28), is one of the few classic in the history. His creation in the various genres of piano music, even he himself also founded in a variety of genre, for example the nocturne, polo kuznets, ancestral card and so on, at the same time, he also is inherent in the original style, such as the prelude, waltz, etude, song farcicality, ballade, fantasia, impromptus, scherzo, rondo injected with new connotation. Are the twenty-four preludes Chopin in1836-1839on the island of mallorca recuperate when completed, the work in the history of Chopin’s creation occupies an important symbolic role.This article focuses on the analysis from the perspective of musicology analysis of Chopin’s twenty-four preludes, from the summary of Chopin’s piano music style, creative style and Chopin prelude music phenomenon and style and so on many aspects, from Chopin’s music content and basic characteristics to explore the music of a deeper mental and social phenomenon.The first chapter:the outline of Chopin prelude, divided into four sections,respectively introduces the origin of Chopin prelude, maturity and development of Prelude genre, a general overview of works of Op.28, as well as the statusof Chopin this divertimento for his life in the creation of.The second chapter:on the art characteristics of Chopin prelude, divided into two sections, namely, Chopin’s national color and tragic color. The first sectionof national color represented by the national hero image of the music to explain, the concrete by the prelude,12,14,8and16as an example. In section second, the tragic color of Chopin prelude, mainly in2,4,6, Adagiotracks are analyzed in detail, which is representative of Chopin’s "funeral" theme is the bright spot.The third chapter:Prelude music performance practices. This chapter from theharmony relationship, the timbre of national temperament, the tragic colorfabrics in three sections described.The fourth chapter:the social significance of the prelude, aims to Chopin’screation motive, spiritual value and musicological analysis prospect to analyze the value and significance of prelude.