Études (Debussy)

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Études
by Claude Debussy
Catalogue	L. 136
Composed	August 5 – September 29, 1915
Performed	December 14, 1916; 107 years ago (1916-12-14) Paris

Étude pour les cinq doigts (2:54)

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Étude pour les tierces (3:25)

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Étude pour les quartes (4:09)

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Étude pour les sixtes (3:22)

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Étude pour les octaves (2:16)

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Étude pour les huit doigts (1:35)

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Étude pour les degrés chromatiques (2:06)

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Étude pour les agréments (4:10)

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Étude pour les notes répétées (3:10)

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Étude pour les sonorités opposées (4:38)

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Étude pour les arpèges composés (3:09)

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Étude pour les accords (5:03)

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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.^[a]

1. Étude 1 pour les cinq doigts d'après Monsieur Czerny (five fingers, "after Monsieur Czerny")
2. Étude 2 pour les tierces (thirds)
3. Étude 3 pour les quartes (fourths)
4. Étude 4 pour les sixtes (sixths)
5. Étude 5 pour les octaves
6. Étude 6 pour les huit doigts (eight fingers)
7. Étude 7 pour les degrés chromatiques (chromatic degrees)
8. Étude 8 pour les agréments (ornaments)
9. Étude 9 pour les notes répétées (repeated notes)
10. Étude 10 pour les sonorités opposées (opposing sonorities)
11. Étude 11 pour les arpèges composés (composite arpeggios)
12. Étude 12 pour les accords (chords)

• 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.‎

• 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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