Chopin wrote 24 preludes, each one in every key. Preludes are short music pieces and Chopin's preludes were highly innovative. This prelude, also known as "Raindrops", is famous for the sounds of raindrops heard throughout the piece. Chopin rarely attributed any name or program to his music. The suggestion for this name is found in George Sand's autobiography.
Chopin together with Sand and her children had travelled to Majorca. One day, Sand and one of her children left Chopin who was sick, to buy supplies from Palma. On their way back, they fell into a storm: "We hurried, knowing how our sick one would worry. Indeed he had, but now as though congealed in a kind of quiet desperation and weeping, he was playing this wonderful prelude...". Imagine yourself being in Chopin's shoes, waiting alone in the cold for his loved ones to return while writing music in the sound of raindrops.