Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano études composed in 1915. Debussy described them as "a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands".[1] They are broadly considered his late masterpieces.[lower-alpha 1]
- 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
- 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)
Notes
- ↑ "Etudes - Claude Achille Debussy". pianosociety.com. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
References
- Elie Robert Schmitz, V. Thomson. The Piano Works of Claude Debussy. Courier Dover Publications, 1966. ISBN 0-486-21567-9
- Lesure, François; Howat, Roy (2001). "Claude Debussy". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5.
External links
- Jiang, Qing (2012). "Rethinking Virtuosity in Piano Etudes of the Early Twentieth Century: Case Studies in Claude Debussy's Douze Études for Piano". New England Conservatory of Music. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- Wicklund, Betty Jeanne (1945). "A Study of Debussy's Douze Études for Piano". University of Rochester. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
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