Claude Debussy’s Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano etudes composed in 1915. The pieces are extremely difficult to play, as Debussy himself admitted, describing them as “a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands” [1]. They are broadly acknowledged as his late masterpieces.[2]
Looking up antiquated slurs, as it turns out. Reading WARHOL by David Bourdon