The complexity of his piano etudes is heard in both works.
Burgmüller also went on to compose piano études intended for children.
One of his most notable recordings is that of the first two books of Ligeti's piano études.
He later adapted these themes in 1899 for the Toccata that closes the Opus 111 series of piano études.
And then there were simple, consonant and repetitive piano études, limper and less dramatic.
In the 60s, starting with his first series of piano etudes and the 3rd Symphony, piano regained a prominent role in his music.
Playing both books of the daunting, dazzling piano études by the colossal Gyorgy Ligeti, who died in 2006, would be formidable enough.
The sequel to the Préludes was a set of pieces with no associations other than to themselves: a set of 12 piano Études.
Claude Debussy's Études (L 136) are a set of 12 piano etudes composed in 1915.
The Études-tableaux ("study pictures") are two sets of piano études composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff, arranged under opus numbers 33 and 39.