Études (Debussy)

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The Études are the final collection for piano by Claude Debussy, comprising twelve pieces composed between 5 August and 29 September 1915. Divided into two books and dedicated to the memory of Frédéric Chopin, they were premiered partially by pianists George Copeland on 21 November 1916 in New York City, Walter Rummel on 14 December 1916; at a concert for the benefit of "L'Aide affectueuse aux mus

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"In Debussys 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 Chopins two books were to the nineteenth."

Études (Debussy)