Description

In 1913, three years after publication of the Pr��ludes I, another collection of twelve Pr��ludes appeared. The pieces are longer and make use of a very wide register, which is why Debussy mainly notated them on three staves. As with the first volume of Pr��ludes the programmatic additions only appeared at the end of each piece. The cycle closes with the virtuosic and brilliant Feux d��artifice, fireworks of pianistic bravura in thetrue sense of the word. The piano writing and title of no. 11, Les ti��r ces altern��es, already hints at the twelve ��tudes of 1915 (HN 390) with which Debussy was to end his piano ��uvre. Edited by Ernst-G��nter Heinemann with fingerings by Hans-Martin Theopold and a preface by Fran��ois Lesure.