G. Henle Verlag Douze Etudes - Debussy /Heinemann /Theopold - Piano - Book

Composer: Claude Debussy
Editor: Ernst-Gunter Heinemann
Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
Preface: Francois Lesure
Format: Softcover
Instrumentation: Piano

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 He had withdrawn to a country house near Dieppe with his family and composed with fevered concentration.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.

Contents:

• Pour les "cinq doigts" d'apres Monsieur Czerny
• Pour les tierces
• Pour les quartes
• Pour les sixtes
• Pour les octaves
• Pour les huit doigts
• Pour les degres chromatiques
• Pour les agrements
• Pour les notes repetees
• Pour les sonorites opposees
• Pour les arpeges composes
• Pour les accords