Twelve New Etudes for Piano (1977–86) is a piece composed by William Bolcom, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1988,Fischer, Heinz Dietrich (2010). The Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music, p. 192. Peter Lang. . while he was teaching composition at University of Michigan.Materka, Pat Roessle (May/June 1988). "Your University", The Michigan Alumnus, Volumes 93–95, p. 17. UM Libraries.
The set is "new" relative to Bolcom's first set of Twelve Etudes for Piano (1959–1966; released on Advance FGR-14S in 1971Lewis, Thomas P.; ed. (1990). Something About the Music, Vol. 2, p. 104. Pro/Am Music Resources.), 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,"William Bolcom", Pulitzer.org. Accessed: 1 August 2018. (2006). Contemporary Musicians, Volume 54, p. 28. Gale Research. . and recorded the pieces on New World Records in 1988 (80354).
The New Etudes are divided into four books of three pieces:
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