Chopin | Prelude in E minor, Op 28, No. 4

The Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 by Frédéric Chopin is one of the 24 Chopin preludes.

By Chopin's request, this piece was played at his funeral, along with Mozart's Requiem.

The piece is only a page long and uses a descending melody line.

The melody starts with the dominant B and works its way to the tonic E, but halfway through the piece the descending line is interrupted and the melody starts over again.

Only in the last bars does the melody dissolve in the tonic and go through a chord progression to the soothing and satisfying.

Eugène Delacroix | Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (detail), 1838 | Musée du Louvre

Khatia Buniatishvili (1987) is a Georgian and French concert pianist.

Buniatishvili signed with Sony Classical as an exclusive artist in 2010.

Her 2011 debut album included Liszt’s Sonata in B minor, Liebestraum No. 3, and Mephisto Waltz No. 1. Buniatishvili is a regular attendee of the Verbier Festival, and she performed Liszt's Sonata in B minor at the 2011 festival.

In 2012, Buniatishvili released her second album, Chopin, which featured solo piano works as well as Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor accompanied by the Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Järvi.

The Guardian reported "This is playing straight from the heart from one of today's most exciting and technically gifted young pianists".

On 7 December 2024, she was one of the featured artists who performed at the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris.