Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano
etudes composed in 1915. The pieces are extremely
difficult to play, as Debussy himself admitted,
describing them as "a warning to pianists not to take
up the musical profession unless they have remarkable
hands". They are broadly acknowledged as his late
masterpieces.
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 (fourth...(+)
Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano
etudes composed in 1915. The pieces are extremely
difficult to play, as Debussy himself admitted,
describing them as "a warning to pianists not to take
up the musical profession unless they have remarkable
hands". They are broadly acknowledged as his late
masterpieces.
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 (octaves)
Étude 6 pour les huit doigts (eight fingers)
MP3 (Etude n°II "pour les tierces" en sib mineur)
performed by Benoit Mortgat
(http://morceauxchoisis.free.fr/)