Belongs to Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, a set of short pieces for the piano, one in each of the twenty-four keys, originally published in 1839. Chopin wrote them between 1835 and 1839, partly at Valldemossa, Majorca, where he spent the winter of 1838-39 and where he had fled with George Sand and her children to escape the damp Paris weather. In Majorca, Chopin had a copy of Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, and as in each of Bach's two sets of preludes and fugues, his Op. 28 set comprises a complete cycle of the major and minor keys, albeit with a different ordering. This piece consists of widely spaced, continuous triplet-quaver movement in both hands, which some pianists consider to rival the difficulty of Preludes No. 8 and No. 16. It’s mood and/or theme is characterized by “wings, wings, that I may flee to you, o my beloved!”, heartfelt happiness.
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