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Schlesinger publishes Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28

In 1839 Chopin’s Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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In 1839 Chopin’s Twenty-Four Preludes, Op. 28, were published in Paris by Schlesinger, with a German parallel issue, as a printed cycle covering the major and minor keys. French dedication to Camille Pleyel and German dedication to J. C. Kessler are title-page facts, not extra preludes. The row does not split twenty-four twins. Later complete recordings are reception.

28 (1839-09-01).

Context

A prelude before 1839 was usually a doorway into a fugue or a fantasy. Chopin’s cycle made the doorway the whole public object, ordered by key, short enough to sit on a domestic stand. That is a data-and-access claim: the cycle is a catalogue of states that can be copied. It is not a claim that 1839 tuberculosis was a compositional method. A cycle that can be bought as a book is a public record of twenty-four states; it is not a weather diary and not a later complete-works reprint with another editor’s fingering.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Preludes print is not the Valldemossa winter. Keep illness on its own row. Mixed effects of Schlesinger publishes Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28 are separate paths.

Why it matters

High confidence on 1839 print. Modest weight: a prelude book is not a statistical office. Majorca’s damp is not added as a second publication date.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.4 · verified

    He completed and released the twenty-four preludes as a printed cycle. Schlesinger and German partners engraved them. Complex author-plus-house.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactSchlesinger publishes Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28
    2. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 September 1839 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.IMSLP — Chopin printed editionsInternational Music Score Library Project · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Fryderyk Chopin Institute — works and sourcesNarodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

The Institute’s works catalogue dates Op. 28 and the 1839 issues. IMSLP independently hosts nineteenth-century plates, showing the cycle as a sold book of pieces. Official: https://chopin.nifc.pl/en/chopin/dziela (opens in a new tab). Independent: https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Chopin,_Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric (opens in a new tab). The records establish opus, year, and completeness of the twenty-four. They do not establish a unique later ‘cycle listening’ survey, nor a medical dataset for the island winter, nor a claim that each prelude occupied a numbered day in a cell diary.

Established: Op. 28 was published in 1839 as twenty-four preludes. Not established: that each prelude was written on a single Majorca day, or a unique modern data-protection coefficient. A contradictory first issue lacking the cycle would change the row. A later recording would not.

Shared responsibility is part of Schlesinger publishes Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28. Naming Frédéric Chopin does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1839-09-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

28 on 1839-09-01. Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorFrédéric Chopin
  2. contributed toFactSchlesinger publishes Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28
  3. strengthensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Schlesinger publishes Chopin’s 24 Preludes, Op. 28. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-preludes-op28-1839

https://factrail.ai/facts/ch-preludes-op28-1839

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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