Préludes, Book I / Images, Book I

Préludes, Book I / Images, Book I are collections of solo piano pieces by Claude Debussy, composed in the early 1900s. They exemplify Debussy's impressionistic harmonic language, characterised by modal inflections, whole-tone and pentatonic influences, novel textures and delicate piano colours, and occupy a key place in his shift from late-Romantic idioms toward atmosphere-driven, colouristic piano writing.