Études (Debussy)
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Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano etudes composed in 1915. The pieces are extremely difficult to play, as Debussy himself admitted, describing them as "a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands" [1]. They are broadly acknowledged as his late masterpieces.[2]
- Étude 1 pour les cinq doigts d'après Monsieur Czerny (five fingers, "after Monsieur Czerny")
- Étude 2 pour les tierces (thirds)
- Étude 3 pour les quartes (fourths)
- Étude 4 pour les sixtes (sixths)
- Étude 5 pour les octaves (octaves)
- Étude 6 pour les huit doigts (eight fingers)
- Étude 7 pour les degrés chromatiques (chromatic degrees)
- Étude 8 pour les agréments (ornaments)
- Étude 9 pour les notes répétées (repeated notes)
- Étude 10 pour les sonorités opposées (opposing sonorities)
- Étude 11 pour les arpèges composés (composite arpeggios)
- Étude 12 pour les accords (chords)
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=156
- ^ Lesure, Grove: "[...] Etudes for piano, one of his greatest late works."
[edit] References
- Elie Robert Schmitz, V. Thomson. The Piano Works of Claude Debussy. Courier Dover Publications, 1966. ISBN 0-486-21567-9
- François Lesure, Roy Howat. "Claude Debussy", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed 27 November 2006), grovemusic.com (subscription access).
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