Miniatures and the like - Short one-movement pieces that stand on their own

[North Star]

This is The Usual GMG Entropy (e.g., Ask for a favorite recording, and in a week's time, every single recording of the piece will have been named by someone or other) . . . but I should have thought it obvious that, given a set of (say) 24 pieces, no one of those is a stand-alone element . . . .

Indeed. I wasn't thinking of the Preludes so much as the Nocturnes and Mazurkas.

[Karl Henning]

Point taken.  However, I was paying more attention to the "one movement" aspect and not the miniature connotation.

Understood . . . and certainly an interesting tangential topic!

[Karl Henning]

Indeed. I wasn't thinking of the Preludes so much as the Nocturnes and Mazurkas.

Very good. I'm a keen fan of the Mazurkas, myself!

[North Star]

Very good. I'm a keen fan of the Mazurkas, myself!

They're my favourite Chopin, certainly.