Original sentence: 33 étude-tableaux at Ivanovka between August and September 1911, the year after completing his second set of piano preludes, Op 32.39 études-tableaux, written between 1915 and 1916 and published in 1917, was the last substantial composition written by Rachmaninoff while still in Russia and shows a marked departure from his previous work.Like the piano études of Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Messaen and Ligeti, the études-tableaux "summarize their composers' discoveries about the piano and how music for it should be written.Rachmaninoff biographer Max Harrison calls the études-tableaux "sudies in [musical] composition"; while they explore a variety of themes, they "investigate the transformation of rather specific climates of feeling via piano textures and sonorities.Rachmaninoff concentrates in the preludes on establishing well-defined moods and developing musical themes.Rachmaninoff had been listening keenly to his contemporaries Scriabin and Sergei Prokofiev, and had studied Scriabin's works to prepare a memorial recital in which Rachmaninoff himself played in Scriabin's honor.Rachmaninov composed the Op.The Op.They are thus less predictable than the preludes and compositionally mark an advance" in technique.While the Op 33 études-tableaux share some stylistic points with the preludes, they are actually very unlike them
Edited sentence: Published in 1917, this is the last substantial composition written by Rachmaninoff while still in Russia and shows a marked departure from his previous work.Rachmaninoff had been listening keenly to his contemporaries Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Prokofiev, and had studied Scriabin's works to prepare a memorial recital in which Rachmaninoff himself played in Scriabin's honor.They show he was experimenting restlessly well before the Bolshevik revolution, and illustrate how his observation of musical trends around him helped mold and shape his future work.Those who think Rachmaninoff lost his way as a composer after he left Russia in 1917 would do well to hear or study these pieces