Marc-André Hamelin - Étude No. 12 in A-flat minor ’Prelude and Fugue’

Pf: Marc-André Hamelin Performance video: ----- “This was not only the first of these études to be written, but it’s actually my first sizable compositional effort. At the time of writing, I did not have a complete set of études in mind; moreover, the fugue was written first, and it was only natural that I should later preface it, in accordance with a long-established precedent.