Prelude No.1

Prelude No. 1 is a guitar piece written by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos.

The piece is written in E minor, and is the first of a set of five preludes. The others are in E major, A minor, E minor, and D major.

Discography

• Villa-Lobos, O Intérprete. Prelude No. 1 and Chôros No. 1 (Villa-Lobos, guitar); Chôros No. 5, A lenda do caboclo, and "Polichinelo" from A prole do bebe (Villa-Lobos, piano; "Um canto que saiu das senzalas", "Guriata do coqueiro", "Nhapopê", and "Xangô" (Beate Roseroiter, soprano; Villa-Lobos, piano). Caravelle LP MEC/MVL 002.

See also

• Charles-Valentin Alkan, Prelude no. 1 in C major, op. 31, no. 1 (1847)
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Prelude no. 1 in C major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, book 1 (1722), and Prelude no. 1 in C major, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, book 2 (1744)
• Felix Blumenfeld, Prelude no. 1 in C major, op. 17, no. 1 (1892)
• Frédéric Chopin, Prelude No. 1 in C major, op. 28, no. 1 (1839)
• Claude Debussy, Prelude no. 1, "Danseuses de Delphes", from Préludes, book 1 (1909–10), and Prelude no. 1, "Brouillards", from Préludes, book 2 (1912–13)
• Sergei Rachmaninoff, Prelude no. 1 in F♯ minor, from Ten Preludes, op. 23 (1901–03), and Prelude no. 1 in C major, from Thirteen Preludes, op. 32 (1910)
• Alexander Scriabin, Prelude no. 1, op. 11, no. 1 (1896)
• Dmitri Shostakovich, Prelude no. 1, op. 34, no. 1 (1933), and Prelude No. 1 from 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 (1951)