Images - 1re Serie

Piano Solo

By Claude Debussy

Item Number: HL.51480388

ISBN 9790201803883. 9.25x12.25 inches.

“Have you played the Images...? Without undue vanity, I believe that these three pieces can hold their own and will assume a place in the piano literature ... to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin ... as you like it.” Thus wrote Debussy in a letter to his publisher and friend Jacques Durand in 1905. Debussy's prophecy was to become true. The pieces have become a fixed part of piano repertoire. Incidentally: for the slow movement Hommage à Rameau Debussy, an innovator who was still aware of tradition, was inspired by a performance of Castor et Pollux in 1903.

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Very advanced level, very difficult note reading, frequent time signature changes, virtuosic level technical facility needed.