Glass: Complete Piano Etudes

Philip Glass' Piano Etudes stand at the end of a long line of development, starting with "exercises" by Scarlatti, through romantic piano etudes composers such as Clementi, Czerny, Hummel, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, to 20‐th century masters like Ligeti and Cage.

Philip Glass, icon of the Minimal Music, wrote these etudes between 1991 and 2012, to "explore a variety of tempi, textures and piano techniques", and also "to become a better player".

Jeroen van Veen, celebrated pioneer of the performance of Minimal Music and Extraordinary Repertoire, considers these etudes as "refreshingly new, really adding something to the existing repertoire, the challenge being not only the technical hurdles but mainly the endurance and concentration".