Editor: Ernst-Günter Heinemann

Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold

Preface: François Lesure

Urtext Edition, paperbound

Pages: 96 (VI, 90)

Order no. HN 390 · ISMN 979-0-2018-0390-6

Debussy composed this cycle, and other masterful late works, in the summer of 1915. He had withdrawn to a country house near Dieppe with his family and composed with fevered concentration. The self-critical composer was very proud of his Études: “I confess that I am pleased to have created a work which – false vanity aside – will occupy a special niche. In point of technique these Études will usefully prepare pianists for a better understanding of the fact that the portals of music can only be opened with formidable hands.” Debussy’s Études are today a milestone along the path of those desirous of becoming concert pianists.

Read more about this edition in the Henle Blog.

• Pour les "cinq doigts" d'après Monsieur Czerny 
  
• Pour les tierces 
  
• Pour les quartes 
  
• Pour les sixtes 
  
• Pour les octaves 
  
• Pour les huit doigts 
  
• Pour les degrés chromatiques 
  
• Pour les agréments 
  
• Pour les notes répétées 
  
• Pour les sonorités opposées 
  
• Pour les arpèges composés 
  
• Pour les accords