Debussy - Douze Etudes for piano

Douze Etudes by Claude Debussy for piano.

Editor : Ernst-Günter Heinemann.
Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold.
Preface: François Lesure

Titles :

Livre I

• Pour les "cinq doigts" d'après Monsieur Czerny
• Pour les tierces
• Pour les quartes
• Pour les sixtes
• Pour les octaves
• Pour les huit doigts

Livre II

• Pour les degrés chromatiques
• Pour les agréments
• Pour les notes répétées
• Pour les sonorités opposées
• Pour les arpèges composés
• Pour les accords

Debussy composed this cycle, and other masterful late works, in the summer of 1915. He had withdrawn to a country house near Dieppe with his family and composed with fevered concentration. The self-critical composer was very proud of his Études: “I confess that I am pleased to have created a work which – false vanity aside – will occupy a special niche. In point of technique these Études will usefully prepare pianists for a better understanding of the fact that the portals of music can only be opened with formidable hands.” Debussy’s Études are today a milestone along the path of those desirous of becoming concert pianists.