Études (Debussy)
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Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano études composed in 1915.
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[edit]- In Debussy's synthesis, every aspect is examined — scales, seconds, thirds, fourths, octaves, ornamentation, repeated notes, arpeggios, chords. And his Études end up being to the early twentieth century what Chopin's two books were to the nineteenth.
- Harold C. Schonberg, The Great Pianists (rev. ed., 1987), p. 414.
