Preludes is a musical fantasia set in the mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff, written and composed by Dave Malloy.

18, 1st Movement, opening phrase, Act II suggested by Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, op.

†Not included on the Original Cast Recording § Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff The piece premiered Off-Broadway in June 2015 at Lincoln Center Theater 3.

Mr. Malloy ... incorporates wildly diverse sources—classical, folk, electro-pop—into a form that exists defiantly beyond the quotation marks of postmodernism.

Along with Fun Home and the soaring, Broadway-bound Hamilton, this smashing production says that the American musical is not only not dead but also growing luxuriantly in places you never expected.