A DMA recording project accompanied by an essay on the concert piano Étude from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

The goal of this recording project is to present a selected history of the concert tude genre from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, examining the tudes of Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Kapustin, Bolcom, Lane, and Giarusso. The popularity of composing in this genre has grown since the nineteenth century and tudes were no longer considered merely didactic pieces, but also for use in concert performance. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the evolution of tudes (studies), important aspects of composers style, a variety of piano techniques, and to present interesting cases in different editions and interpretations.