DEBUSSY – PRELUDES BK 2

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.