Twelve New Etudes for Piano
Twelve New Etudes for Piano is a piece composed by William Bolcom, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1988, while he was teaching composition at University of Michigan.
The set is "new" relative to Bolcom's first set of Twelve Etudes for Piano, and was intended for and dedicated to Paul Jacobs, who died before the composition was complete, and thus the finished set is dedicated to Jacobs, John Musto, and Marc-André Hamelin.
Musto gave a partial premiere in 1986, and Hamelin premiered the complete Etudes in 1987, and recorded the pieces on New World Records in 1988.
The New Etudes are divided into four books of three pieces:
