Editor: Stüwe, Holger M. Product format: Performance score(s), Urtext edition Includes the following individual parts: Piano

Debussy confidently wrote to his publisher Jacques Durand in August 1905: “I believe – without unwarranted vanity – that these three pieces will prove to be good and that they will take a prominent place in the literature of piano music … to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin … as you like it”. Debussy’s “Images”, already popular during Debussy’s lifetime, delight with their iridescent tone colour and dazzling harmonies “which reflect the newest discoveries in harmonic chemistry”.

Edition type: urtext edition Edition Info: Editor: Peter Hauschild Fingerings: Alexander Jenner, Hans Kann, Gerhard Oppitz, Günter Reinhold, Naoyuki Taneda; with critical notes Dimensions : 25 x 32 x 3 cm

The Preludes of Op. 28 include all 24 major and minor tonalities arranged in a circle of fifths, with each major key being followed by its relative minor. Contrary to custom of using this type of piece as didactic material, Chopin's cycle was intended as concert music. Dimensions : 33 x 25 x 2 cm