Trois grandes études

76, is a set of three piano études composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan in 1838 and published in 1839.

[1] Although they have the highest opus number of any Alkan work, the études were actually composed when he was only 25.

It features tremolos, numerous dense sequences of chords, and large jumps.

The longest and most difficult of the three, it features rapid cadenza-like flourishes along with many of the same technical challenges found in the first étude.

Recordings of the Trois grandes études have been made by Stephanie McCallum (1985), Ronald Smith (1987), Laurent Martin (1993), Marc-André Hamelin (1994), Albert Frantz (2012), and Alessandro Deljavan (2013).