Price: Preludes for Piano

Composer: Florence Price (1887-1953) Instrumentation: Piano Work: Preludes Binding: Size: 8.9 x 12.0 inches Pages: None Description Preludes No. 1. Allegro moderato No. 2. Andantino cantabile No. 3. Allegro molto No. 4 ["Wistful"]. Allegretto con tenerezza No. 5. Allegro Published here for the first time, Price's Preludes are her first Major set for piano — and they are not without their enigmas. for one, only one of the autograph sources bears Price's name, a rare occurrence in her papers. for another, the earliest manuscript version (now surviving as two separate autographs, identified as sources AS 2 and AS 3 below) is dated June, 1926, but neither it nor the only complete autograph that survives intact (source AS 1) names Price as author. Most curious of all, that autograph is found not with most of the remainder of Price's musical estate in the Special Collections division of the University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, but rather in the papers of Margare