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A Lieutenant General, graduate of the St Petersburg Engineering School and Academy of Military Engineering, noted authority on fortification, instructor to the last Tsar, and President of the Imperial Russian Musical Society, critic, occasional student of Moniuszko, disciple of Balakirev, by profession a military engineer, by vocation a musician, by blood not a Russian at all, César Antonovich Cui was born in Vilnius, to a French father, an officer with Napoleon’s ill-fated Grand Army of 1812, wounded at Smolensk, and a Lithuanian mother.
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Name: Cui - 25 Preludes

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ComposerOpusMusicKey Performer
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.1 - Allegro maestoso C major Jeffrey Biegel, piano
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.2 - Moderato assai E minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.3 - Allegro G major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.4 - Allegro B minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.5 - Allegretto D major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.6 F sharp minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.7 - Allegro non troppo A major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.8 - Allegro C sharp minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.9 - Andantino E major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.10 - Allegro non troppo G sharp minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.11 - Allegretto B major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.12 - Allegretto E flat minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.13 - Andante F sharp major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.14 - Moderato B flat minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.15 - Andantino D flat major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.16 - Andantino F minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.17 - Larghetto A flat major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.18 - Allegretto C minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.19 - Allegretto E flat major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.20 - Allegro non troppo G minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.21 - Allegro B flat major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.22 - Lento D minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.23 - Allegro non troppo F major
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.24 - Moderato A minor
Cui, Cesar   Prelude No.25 - Allegro non troppo C major

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