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Claude Debussy

Etude No. 7, Pour les degrés chromatiques  Play

Inesa Sinkevych Piano

Recorded on 04/10/2013, uploaded on 09/26/2013

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

Composed in 1915, the set of twelve piano etudes is very challenging technically.  Debussy himself wrote that his Etudes are "a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands”.  Each piece is devoted to exploration of one technical problem – thirds, sixths, octaves, etc.  Pour les degrés chromatiques is a study in the use of the chromatic scale, both compositionally and technically.     Inesa Sinkevych