Six Preludes for Double Bass and Piano is a 2008 arrangement of six selected preludes from Lera Auerbach’s 1999 cycle for violin and piano. In the double bass version, the music moves into a darker register, where dream, lament, dance and tragic weight acquire a different physical presence.

The selected sequence forms a concentrated expressive arc: a slow waltz-like opening, two dreamlike adagios, a tragic center, a serious moderato, and a final sognando movement.

• Source Six selected preludes from the violin-and-piano cycle.
• Duration 13 minutes.
• Dedication Rafael DeStella.

Auerbach’s prelude cycles return repeatedly to the idea of the miniature as a complete expressive world. This arrangement takes six movements from the violin-and-piano cycle and relocates them into the sonority of the double bass, preserving the formal concision of the originals while transforming their color and weight.

The work sits within a wider constellation of Auerbach’s transcriptions, suites, and chamber adaptations, in which material from a larger cycle is reconfigured for a new instrument and a new expressive register.

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