36 Etudes

This new edition seeks not only to preserve but to attempt to find challenges that have remained for so very long. As an editor, it has been my pleasure and frustration to attempt to assist a new (and old) generation of performers who seek to ascend this “Everest” of our repertoire. One goal has been to return to the order of 1926, which Leduc ignored as they sought to augment Charlier’s work with by their own catalog of composers, including “Arban, Chavanne, Balay, etc.. Though Leduc refers to their edition as “Nouvelle edition,” it relies upon the flawed work of an engraver from nearly a generation earlier. -Henry Howey