
Bach’s ubiquitously known Well-Tempered Clavier (namely, a prelude in each of the major and minor keys) and imitated by several other composers, including Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. Though totaling twenty-four in number between the two books, Debussy’s preludes do not follow the precedent established by J.



Claude Debussy composed his two books of preludes during a remarkably brief period-the first, between December 1909 and February 1910 and the second, during roughly the same period in 1912-13.
