24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 by Dmitri Shostakovich is a set of 24 pieces (that is, 24 prelude-fugue pairs) for solo piano, one in each of the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale. The cycle was composed in the years 1950/51 while Shostakovich was in Moscow, and premiered by pianist Tatiana Nikolayeva in Leningrad in December 1952; it was published the same year. The complete work takes about two and a half hours to play. It is one of several examples of music written in all major and/or minor keys.
| Date of composition | 1951 (1950-1951) in Russia, Moscow |
| Premiered | December 1952 in Russia, Saint Petersburg |
| Type | Preludes and Fugues |
| Catalogue | Op. 87 |
| Approx. duration | 150 minutes |
| Instruments | Piano |
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Dmitri Chostakovitch: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 Dmitrij Šostakovič: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 |