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Études-Tableaux, Op. 33
1911 set of piano études by Sergei Rachmaninoff
This article is about the first set of études-tableaux by Rachmaninoff, Op.
33. For the second set, see Études-Tableaux, Op. 39.
The Études-Tableaux ("study pictures"), Op. 33, is the first of two sets of piano études composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff. They were intended to be "picture pieces", essentially "musical evocations of external visual stimuli".
Rachmaninoff etude-tableau op 39 no 2But Rachmaninoff did not disclose what inspired each one, stating: "I do not believe in the artist that discloses too much of his images. Let [the listener] paint for themselves what it most suggests."[1] However, he willingly shared sources for a few of these études with the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi when Respighi orchestrated them in 1930.
History
Rachmaninoff composed the Op. 33 Études-Tableaux at his Ivanovka estate in Tambov, Russia between August and September 1911, the year after completing his second set of preludes,