Debussy, Claude: Douze Etudes

Edited by Heinemann, Ernst-Günter
Setting: Piano
Length: 96 pages
Weight: 0.378 kg
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN0390
Other reference: HN0390-6
ISMN: 9790201803906
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 He had withdrawn to a country house near Dieppe with his family and composed with fevered concentration.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 etudes: ''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 etudes 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 etudes are today a milestone along the path of those desirous of becoming concert pianists.

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