Ooooooooooh, this post deserves some extra longer comment, though I am running out of my time even without starting to be around here (you know, stuff like an unplanned gig in the middle of the week and a problem with a car mixed with teaching and stretching my right hand with the Rach Prelude) but seriously? Ravel? Debussy? How it happens that those two guys can completely wake me up early in the morning just seeing/reading this post of yours? Oh yeah, because they have some special spot in the place that constantly makes the tick-tock sounds in me.

Debussy allowed me to play several of his works, but Ravel was kind of...hmm... kind of a perfect technique one, as you also say. Though you say it for composing, but for performing too.

Not a known fact here in hive - I think I have never said it before... I started my postgraduate degree in piano after graduating from the university. Would choose the topic of impressionism... and resulted that one of the pieces I was preparing - the Le Tombeau de Couperin was my tomb :/ Yep, I didn't finish it. Maybe the last movement killed me hahahaha. Don't know why I didn't push it with a bit more practising. Anyway, going through the list of your ending note I failed already on the first. I gave up. Maybe a follow-up post to your one should come from me touching on this topic, but it's better to read positive things :))

(LoL, I bet you don't even know who that guy is!)

lol, you think? :D

I plan to make this a series hehe...

Yes, please!