{"id":9006,"date":"2025-11-08T18:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/?post_type=product&#038;p=9006"},"modified":"2026-08-31T17:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:45:54","slug":"dr-gradus-ad-parnassum","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/product\/dr-gradus-ad-parnassum\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Gradus ad Parnassum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anacrouse collection offers pianists, beginners and advanced alike, a wide choice of classical works from the Renaissance to the present day. It brings together major works of the repertoire as well as rarer pieces, and also offers transcriptions for piano solo or four hands, selected for their musical and educational interest. Each score, available individually, benefits from careful editorial work: a rigorously established musical text, clear and legible engraving, accompanied by a short biography of the composer and a note on the work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoctor Gradus ad Parnassum\u201d (in C major) is a velocity study disguised as a genre scene. The technical challenge for the pianist lies in the evenness of the pearly touch and the fluidity of the semiquavers that run across the keyboard. But beyond the exercise, the aim is to convey Debussy\u2019s irony: the piece begins with the rigour of a diligent pupil before escaping to dreamier, more agitated regions. The work focuses on wrist suppleness and subtle use of the pedal to colour the harmonies without ever blurring the clarity of the line.<\/p>\n<p>Composed between 1906 and 1908 by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) for his daughter Chouchou, this piece opens the Children\u2019s Corner suite. The title is an affectionate parody of Clementi\u2019s famous collection of exercises, Gradus ad Parnassum (\u201cThe Ascent to Parnassus\u201d). Debussy humorously depicts the boredom of a child at the piano, forced to repeat scales, before imagination takes over. Beneath its apparent simplicity, this piece marks the birth of a new piano style, blending classical precision and Impressionist modernity.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La collection Anacrouse offre aux pianistes, d\u00e9butants comme confirm\u00e9s, un large choix d\u2019\u0153uvres classiques de la Renaissance \u00e0 nos jours. Elle rassemble des pi\u00e8ces majeures du r\u00e9pertoire ainsi que des \u0153uvres plus rares, et propose<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":38006,"template":"","meta":[],"wpc-attribute-group":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[449],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-9006","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-anacrouse","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-variable","has-default-attributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/9006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wpc-attribute-group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpc-attribute-group?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9006"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebr.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}