Pour le piano | |
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Piano suite by Claude Debussy | |
![]() Debussy at the piano in 1893 | |
English | For the piano |
Catalogue | L. 95 |
Composed | 1894–1901 |
Dedication |
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Performed | 11 January 1902 |
Published | 1901 |
Pour le piano (For the piano), L. 95, is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It consists of three individually composed movements, Prélude, Sarabande and Toccata. The suite was completed and published in 1901. It was premiered on 11 January 1902 at the Salle Érard, played by Ricardo Viñes. Maurice Ravel orchestrated the middle movement.[1]
Regarded as Debussy's first mature piano composition, the suite has frequently been recorded. Bärenreiter published a critical edition in 2018, on the occasion of the centenary of Debussy's death.